Anirudh Oppiliappan

New year…new stuff?

Web browsing, suckless style After having recently installed KISS, and building Firefox from source, I was exposed to the true monstrosity that Firefox—and web browsers in general—is.

I installed KISS Linux This new semester has been pretty easy on me, so far.

A look back at last year Just landed in a rainy Chennai, back in campus for my 6th semester.

A look at Russian info ops against Britain This entire sequence of events begins with the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal1, an ex-GRU officer who was a double-agent for the UK’s intelligence services.

Operational security for the average zoomer Which I am not, of course.

PIR is getting sold to a private firm, and here's why it's bad The .ORG top-level domain introduced in 1985, has been operated by the Public Interest Registry since 2003.

Exams, stuff, etc.

Honestly, it's pretty great Nerdy and I decided to try and use IRC for our daily communications, as opposed to non-free alternatives like WhatsApp or Telegram.

To protect an asset, or to protect the people?

The most fun way to learn to code As a CS student, I see a lot of people around me doing courses online to learn to code.

Not weekly anymore, but was it ever?

Pretty fun weekend, I'd say I’m writing this article as I sit in class, back on the grind.

Put that screen down!

Alpine Linux shenaningans and more It’s a lazy Friday afternoon here; yet another off day this week thanks to my uni’s fest.

A brief on what happened last week This is something new I’m trying out, in an effort to write more frequently and to serve as a log of how I’m using my time.

Misinformation, but deliberate As with the disambiguation of any word, let’s start with its etymology and definiton.

This is probably a terrible idea… A mailserver was a long time coming.

… and lessons learnt in IoT security (originally posted at SecureLayer7’s Blog, with my edits) The lock The lock in question is the FB50 smart lock, manufactured by Shenzhen Dragon Brother Technology Co.

Making stack-based exploitation great again!

My daily drivers—hardware, software and workflow Update: I now maintain a uses page.

Building your own disassembly tooling for — that’s right — fun and profit While solving complex reversing challenges, we often use established tools like radare2 or IDA for disassembling and debugging.