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Book Review (2016)

I tweeted this a while back about my reading progress in 2016, and thought I’d do a post about what I read. Made a graph of my @goodreads reading progress in 2016. I only picked up the pace sometime in May, but managed to read ~10k pages this year. January 13, 2017 Continuing wi…

Vulnerability Report: ACT Corp

ACT, for those who don’t know is one of India’s most popular broadband providers. This is a very brief and concise summary. ACT has a mobile application That allows you to login and check your plan details, data usage etc I’ve been wanting to build a command line application tha…

CCTC Challenge VM

This is specifically about the contest held in 2011, 6 years ago. I’ve written about my experience during the contest on this blog. More specifically, Round 2 of the contest was a pentesting scenario where we were only provided with a VM image and asked to test it and report any…

Behavioural types

Behavioural types such as session types, contracts and choreography describe the behaviour of a software entity as a sequence of operations on a resource such as a communication channel, web service session or a file descriptor. Behavioural types capture well-defined interaction…

Armed with Reason

This is a short tutorial on how to build Reason apps for an ARM target with the help of Docker. I am using Docker for Mac, which is still under beta program. Using Docker for development has two important advantages over traditional cross-compilation. First, the Reason toolchain…