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Michael Coppola
Personal blog · poppopret.orgsecuritysystems
Michael Coppola's personal blog at poppopret.org covers security and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Reverse Engineering a Furby”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link posts by Michael Coppola on reverse-engineering a Furby, hacking at Summercon 2013, and Linux rootkits such as Suterusu. The comments share the links and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reverse Engineering a Furby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-18
What Hacker News says?
Should be called Furby chat ,because: http://poppopret.org/2013/12/18/reverse-engineering-a-furby/
Comment linking /2013/12/18/reverse-engineering-a-furby/
on “Quietnet: Chat client that works over near-ultrasonic sound”Submitted Reverse Engineering a Furby as a story · 103 points
HN discussionTime to start hacking! https://poppopret.org/2013/06/10/summercon-2013-hacking-the-...
Comment linking /2013/06/10/summercon-2013-hacking-the-withings-ws-30/
on “Withings acquired by Nokia”Submitted Google: Stop Burning Counterterrorism Operations as a story · 35 points
HN discussionThis module appears to use a simple brute force method for uncovering the address of the system call table, as opposed to hardcoding from System.map. There's another more elegant solution that could be of interest to readers: http://www.elliotbradbury.com/linux-syscall-hooking-interrup... If you're looking for deeper case studies on Linux rootkits, the Suterusu rootkit is an interesting PoC: http://poppopret.org/201…
Comment linking /2013/01/07/suterusu-rootkit-inline-kernel-function-hooking-on-x86-and-arm/
on “Show HN: A simple, highly commented, rootkit which attacks GCC and Python”Submitted CSAW CTF 2013 Kernel Exploitation Challenge as a story · 1 points
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