Almost nothing from this GitHub profile posted until the last four days.
From a meta perspective what is going on? What am I missing? Why is this GitHub profile suddenly getting massive attention and making front page so frequently?
Chris just has some fun projects. Sandsifter was pretty well known back then due to finding that VIA x86 opcode, the movfuscator is just an amazing piece of mostly useless engineering and the fun reverse engineering psychological warfare was my first contact with his projects. I guess someone stumbled on one of his projects and others clicked through to his other projects. Many of them are a perfect fit for HN, no wonder they got posted.
Chris used to publish all sorts of fun wacky exploits and then stopped when he joined Intel. Putting the LinkedIn puzzle pieces together, he recently left Intel so it looks like he’s back to publishing fun wacky exploits again.
xoreax has a famous video showing how to find hidden x86 secret instructions that... who knows who asked the manufacturer to put there. the story of the hardware setup (pxe booted via terminal pos iirc) to find it is epic because certain opcode faults could brick the machine under normal automation conditions so each pos had to be monitored and have its physical on/off tapped to do a "manual" hard reboot
DEFCON the fun hacking conference in las Vegas that happened last weekend.
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This rosenbridge repos commits claim to be 8 years old https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
Yep there are links as far back as 11 years ago posted here. But I’m saying why suddenly in four days is this GitHub profile linked in lots of front page threads?
Is it just that one thread brought attention and several people are slowly digesting the other repos on that profile? Or is there another meta reason?
He gave a talk at Defcon.