There's a sick linenoise article by @there.is.no.aarch64.mov in @phrack.org 71 called "Learning An ISA By Force Of Will", where ixi goes from unknown binary blob, to manual instruction decoding, to figuring out control flow, and gives a critique of the RE'd ISA. phrack.org/issues/71/3#...

Wrote a trigger for CVE-2025-38494/5 (an integer underflow in the HID subsystem) that leaks 64 KB of OOB memory over USB. Still works on Pixels and Ubuntus (but the bug is fixed in stable kernels). github.com/xairy/kernel...

The two founders of TPUSA died from things they claimed werent a big deal. Bill Montgomery died of COVID, Charlie Kirk got shot at a school.

nini.cece

Are there any decent gameboy rom plugins for binja that aren't in the plugin store? Neither one on there really works that well for even basic disassembly.

Cleaning up the decompilation of a firmware binary can be such a meditative activity. Delicately defining data, fixing misidentified strings and pointers, undefining erronous functions and types, finding fun features and quirks. It's like a little zen garden to tend to.

This is a test. Trying to tune my notifs. Please reply with something that made you smile recently!!

art is hacking

A 131 byte RISC-V elf that reboots the system. #BGGP echo f0VMRgIAkwjgCDf1BwAFoAIA8wAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAxAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWgAAEAAAAFOAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMagAAP8AAAAAAAAA/wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABsF9XATFdUAEwXV6rclESA3RiMBGwZ2VnM= | base64 -d > r && chmod +x r && ./r

The second I realized it isn’t knowing answers, it’s asking questions that matters, my entire life professional and personal got a whole lot easier.

There is so much power in simply saying "idk" and being open to new info. It's not the end of the world if you don't know something, and by admitting that there are gaps in your knowledge, you can actually learn stuff!!

Are you a musician who is comfortable doing your act on Zoom for 10 minutes to start our all-hands meetings? blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...

Time to return the favors I got when I was looking last year by posting some jobs! Augmodo (my dayjob) is looking for CV/ML, Embedded QA Eng (EE, python, test generation) and a Hardware Bring-up Eng (EE, BSP creation, etc...)! Check our careers page for more info. www.augmodo.com/careers

This repo is hype moments and aura honestly github.com/sensepost/bl...

SMOLNES, a NES emulator in <5000 bytes of C, that can play mapper 0/1/2/3/4/7 games. Shaped like a controller of course 😎 github.com/binji/smolnes (originally from 2022, updated recently to be even smaller)

-=[ PHRACK PROPHILE ON Gera ]=- phrack.org/issues/72/2#... That’s the whole post…

At long last - Phrack 72 has been released online for your reading pleasure! Check it out: phrack.org

So I reverse engineered the @iceblock.app app - www.404media.co/immigration-... here's a thread on what I found. 🧵 (1/11)

This was massive, shoutout everyone who worked on it! We hope it inspires you and reminds you of your power. 💖💖

hi! I'm looking for new work opportunities strongest areas are data analysis & threat hunting. I love SQL, regex, anomaly detection, data wrangling experienced designing & using honeypot systems. have created novel techniques I use python a lot, but can use whatever a situation calls for tysm💓

Today at 1p join us at @2600.com’s HOPE conference for a panel about the computer underground scene schedule.hope.net/hope16/talk/...

Going live is approx 30 mins www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRlC...

Heeey NYC! Come celebrate 40 years of Phrack with @vacci.ne @guitmz.bsky.social @hackerschoice.bsky.social! We'll be at @2600.com's HOPE Conference tomorrow at 17:00! #phrack72 #phrackat40 schedule.hope.net/hope16/talk/...

I really do just *love* the look and feel of open-reel 9-track tape, I don't think anything can quite compare to it, it's just *mwah* 11/10 peak media format.

Realizing it's been a little less than two years since tmp.0ut got asked to take over Phrack. On top of two issues of Phrack, I also worked on tmp.0ut 3 + 4, ran BGGP 4 + 5, got married, did a few talks, and won a live hacking event. BGGP6 is gonna rule, then I chill a bit hehe.

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

New profile pic since no one knew what I looked like

There is no universe in which this is defensible.

What's the best in the wild BSOD or kernel panic pic? Windows or Linux

Get your phrack signed at the @nostarchpress.bsky.social booth at @defcon.bsky.social Sat at 4p! We'll have chompie @bsdaemon.bsky.social @vacci.ne @hermit.sh @richinseattle.bsky.social here for this rare event! #phrack72 #phrackat40

Fresh cover by @vacci.ne for the Print on Demand and Digital releases of PHRACK!! #phrack72 #phrackat40

Here is the cover I made for @phrack.org 72! This cover will be on copies ordered via print on demand. The paper used for this collage was extremely hard to photograph or scan bc of the vivid florescent colors. Shout out @hermit.sh for helping with color correction! See yall in Vegas.

If you could ask a panel of hackers anything about Phrack, zines, and hacking (past/present/future), what would you ask?

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social?? We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack! Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.

Do I know anyone who has gotten this EUD tooling working in openocd? I keep getting errors linking to the jimtcl submodule in the linux-msm fork, and one of the submodule urls in the Linaro fork is down. 🙃 www.linaro.org/blog/hidden-...

Rewatching Gundam Wing: - incomprehensible no further insights to report

You're the cutest hardware that I ever did see. Really love your peripherals, wanna shake your device tree.

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

Looking to get started learning malware analysis or reverse engineering? Check out my ever increasing selection of practical labs. Challenge range in difficulty and each one is designed to introduce a new malware technique. malwaretech.com/labs/

One of the best feelings is eyeballing the possible structure and message types/bitfields of a custom protocol from a log file with a few packets in it, then later finding source (or decompilation) and the packet struct exactly matches. Pattern Recognizers Rise Up.

Hire this man

Someone just told me that Widevine DRM acknowledges the existence of DeCENC in their API responses. Neat! Presumably some of their CDMs ship mitigations now. I haven't looked.

What are your favorite ways to relax after a long week?

Does anyone have recommendations for Las Vegas area printers they have worked with for large-ish (1k-30k) print runs for books (~200 pages)? Hmu

MAGA - Mexicans Ain't Going Anywhere

I would simply not park my car where a scooter could fall on it.

userland ROP on day 1 💪

PHRACK will be at HOPE_16 = Hackers On Planet Earth. 15-17th of AUGUST. (hope.net) NYC 👉WILL RELEASE PHRACK 72 HARDCOVERS THERE 👈 +PARTY+TALK 🍻 We came 25 years ago already. Phrack ❤️ @2600.com