Backport Software to Nix Using Overlays

I know, I know… It’s been almost two years since the last time I wrote here. Well.. I had stuff to do! I am still studying for my masters degree, but I had some major step forwards in many other directions. One of those was picking up NixOs, a great operating system powered by the almighty Nix package manager. There are various reasons behind this choice and I will probably expose them once I installed it as my main system on most of my boxes....

4 January 2022 · 4 min · 709 words · Jacopo Scannella

Owning Indian scammers

A couple of months ago while I was watching KitBoga livestream he leaked the address of a fake tech-support website, made in WordPress. The now dead site was “password protected” by the Hide My Site plugin. Thus I decided to take a look at the source-code and try to own the shit out of the scammers. Target aesthetics A quick look through the code I downloaded the source-code and I started analyzing index....

29 September 2018 · 3 min · 615 words · Jacopo Scannella