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A month with the System76 Galago Ultra Pro

With my recent CCTC Winnings, I decided to purchase a new laptop as my old Dell Inspiron was not performing up to the mark. Being of a time before the Intel i-series launch, it was also severely lacking in several features, most notably virtualization support, which is badly nee…

Deloitte CCTC Wave III

I was winner of the Deloitte CCTC Wave I, and a finalist for the Wave II. It was natural I was participating this year as well. While the first year involved a simple penetration test as the first round, and it was an abstract submission in Wave II; this time it was a closed jeo…

BackdoorCTF and Quizzes

I recently hosted a Geek Quiz at my college along with Giri. The quiz was mostly geek with some sports and pop-cult trivia. Here are the slides for the quiz (both prelims and finals): Geek Quiz Prelims Geek Quiz Finals Some audio/video files for the finals are up here. BackdoorC…

My experience at nullcon 2014

I was recently a speaker at nullcon 2014, a premier infosec conference in India. My talk was a re-hash of my earlier talk at Deloitte CCTC-2 and was titled “Browser Extension Security”. I applied for the CFP sometime in November with a copy of my talk, paper and code I’d used. M…

Using Jekyll optimally without plugins

If you’re a programmer, by now you’ve surely heard of the various static-site compilers that are taking over the world. My pick of choice is Jekyll, (about which I’ve blogged earlier as well) mostly because it is the default supported tool for the GitHub Pages service. Read my e…

On GitHub

I am an Internet addict. And the website I’m most addicted to is called GitHub. GitHub is a social code hosting website that is totally awesome. Not your general run-of-the-mill awesome, but rather ass-kicking best-thing-in-the-world awesome. If GitHub was a ninja, it would be P…

Making HackerTray

A few days back, I found the excellent HackerBarApp via Hacker News. Hacker News, for those of you who don’t know, is tech news website run by YCombinator. Hacker Bar was the simplest way of accessing HN stories that I’d ever seen. Unfortunately, it was only for Mac (made using …

Aboard the Nautilus

I’d done a post on this a long time back (2009), detailing what all softwares I use on a daily basis. This is an update to that post. Since the last post, I’ve moved on to using Linux, using Elementary OS as my primary OS. Over the time period this post was written, I’ve shifted…

Why I still recommend Windows

Even though I am a long time Linux user, and a big time fan of the many Linux distros that I’ve tried out over time, I still go around recommending Windows to people who ask me for advice. The only exception I make is when the person in question is a developer, in which case I t…

SDSLabs - My experiences

Introduction For the past two years, I have been involved in a student group in our campus called SDSLabs. It has been the most fun two years of my life. I have acted as programmer, developer, manager, monkey-coder, event-manager and all other roles one might expect in a startup…