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Margin Research
Company blog · margin.resecuritysystems
Margin Research is the company blog at margin.re, writing about security and systems. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “MikroTik authentication revealed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Cybersecurity Research & Development
Most-linked posts?
- MikroTik authentication revealed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-11
- Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
What Hacker News says?
I wrote an extremely fast hot polled pipe in Rust for QEMU instrumentation. I’m sure there’s room to improve but it’s effectively bottlenecking on the uarch. https://github.com/MarginResearch/cannoli/blob/main/mempipe/... This was specifically designed for one producer (the QEMU processor), and many consumers (processing the trace of instructions and memory accesses). I can't remember what specific tunings I did to…
Comment linking /2022/05/cannoli-the-fast-qemu-tracer/
on “IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison”Submitted An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software as a story · 375 points
HN discussionSlides are here, their link on the paghe to the PDF did not work https://margin.re/content/files/2022/11/Pulling_MikroTik_int...
Comment linking /content/files/2022/11/Pulling_MikroTik_into_the_Limelight-RECon-2022.pdf
on “Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS”Submitted MikroTik authentication revealed as a story · 180 points
HN discussionSlide deck from the con's site: https://cfp.recon.cx/media/2022/submissions/TZUFS8/resources... Slide deck from margin.re: https://margin.re/content/files/2022/11/Pulling_MikroTik_int... Blurb about the presentation at the con's site: https://cfp.recon.cx/media/2022/submissions/TZUFS8/resources... Blurb about the presentation at margin.re: https://margin.re/pulling-mikrotik-into-the-limelight-2/
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on “Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS”Submitted Cannoli: The Fast QEMU Tracer as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can't Spell WebRTC Without RCE – Part 1 as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disassembling Dalvik as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Civilian hackers in China's military cyber strategy as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jailbreaking MikroTik RouterOS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same Same, but Different as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted MikroTik Authentication Revealed as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing Russian Internet Firm Yandex, Its Open-Source Code, and Contributors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Watching the Watchers: Analyzing corporate automated bug reporters in Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Half-Day": 0-Day in the Age of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unpacking Russian-Iranian Private-Sector Cyber Connections as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emulating and Exploiting UEFI Firmware as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Russia’s Open-Source Code and Private-Sector Cybersecurity Ecosystem as a story · 1 points
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