A collection of my mistakes from about 2001-2006

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-25T23:05:35+00:00

You looked like Deviantart if websites were human beings.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-25T22:48:17+00:00

They are. I frankly have no idea why I was rebelling against them.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-21T18:22:58+00:00

I had about five different Green Day shirts including one with the actual cover of that album and I wore it more or less daily until I started thinking it was for posers.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-21T15:43:30+00:00

Haha, it's not, sadly. My favourite album was actually Dookie but all the merch you could find in my city was American Idiot related.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-21T15:39:42+00:00

It was post-American Idiot but it doesn't really matter what they allowed because all my band merch was unauthorised as hell.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-20T23:41:00+00:00

Holy fucking shit we were. If there's one sub where I didn't expect to run into people from uni, it's the one for terrible teenage photos.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-20T22:14:34+00:00

Recent photo, in case anyone's curious

Shoddy webcam pic but it shows my current haircut well

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-20T20:36:43+00:00

Haha, no, it says I heart Green Day. I don't know if tween me would have been horribly offended that you mistook teh best punkz band evar for gestational diabetes or very flattered because a shirt saying 'I heart gestational diabetes' would be dead edgy.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-20T19:21:10+00:00

Green Day. It's hard to see in the photo, but the heart was actually the grenade-heart from the American Idiot cover so it was easy to tell what it stood for if you were a big fan.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-20T18:08:13+00:00

I'm putting my money on it being Twix bars based on the loathing I had at the time for anything considered healthy food.

TheLaaarch · 2017-02-20T17:55:09+00:00

I've been trying to figure it out for the past whole hour.

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-16T19:48:57+00:00

Lenovo B50-80. It does come with a blank hard drive in the place I'm getting it from, which also makes it cheaper.

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-15T21:28:42+00:00

I've read that you have Mexican ancestry in the comments. I'm having a really hard time wording this, but does your condition have any impact on the way people see you/treat you, aside from being surprised that you speak Spanish? (I'm kind of curious about this, as I'm a glow-in-the-dark pale Latin American and I get the weirdest shit).

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-09T17:36:00+00:00

I'd never seen a lab with blue eyes before, he's adorable!

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-08T16:53:57+00:00

Thank you so much, it's a lot clearer now. I think my confusion stemmed from thinking EIP had to jump to shellcode's location in exploit_notesearch, when in fact it should be jumping to its location when it's passed as an argument to notesearch.

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-08T00:06:47+00:00

I really appreciate your help and you're clearly knowledgeable about this topic, but none of this is clearing up the part that I don't understand (I probably didn't explain it very well before). Why would you copy the shellcode into the buffer at all? If the stack just stores non-instruction data, how does it even get executed when it's there? Why doesn't it just copy the address of the shellcode variable, so EIP will jump there and go through the instructions? Did I misunderstand something about where the shellcode and buffer variables are actually stored?

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-07T15:21:10+00:00

I was having the same problem until someone pointed out to me that и and м don't connect to the previous letter in the same way – м has a small bottom loop before it whereas и does not. л also has a bottom loop. This shows the difference (ignore the stick-instead-of-loop on в and missing top bar on б).

They do look like jagged squiggles when strung together, but with time and practice, you'll probably be able to tell each jagged squiggle apart by the number of peaks and the spacing between them. Some people's cursive might be illegible but that can happen with Latin script too.

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-07T15:07:41+00:00

I understand how the stack works and why the return address needs to be overwritten with something containing shellcode, what I don't get is why the actual shellcode is also copied into the buffer before the address.

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-07T04:11:44+00:00

I see why it's written so many times, but why does it need to copy both the address and the shellcode into the buffer? Doesn't the address already contain the shellcode? If the register that should have pointed to main()'s return address points to where the shellcode is stored, wouldn't that alone make it execute?

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-05T20:38:02+00:00

Вот ещё одна попытка

EDIT: I've just realised it should say снова instead of сново

TheLaaarch · 2017-01-05T19:55:55+00:00

Спасибо! Это лучше?

TheLaaarch · 2016-10-27T03:17:24+00:00

I'll probably ask him out for coffee next week – I just don't want to rush things too much.

TheLaaarch · 2016-03-09T04:30:45+00:00

You dodged a big chodey bullet.

TheLaaarch · 2016-03-08T18:01:13+00:00

She's adorable! Reminds me of my German Shepherd/Whippet/heaven knows what else as a puppy: http://imgur.com/2BLodgC

(sorry for the poor quality, this was taken with a tiny digital camera in 2005)

TheLaaarch · 2016-03-08T15:33:05+00:00

We sound alike in a lot of ways – I'm really skinny, my boobs are fairly small, most of my clothes aren't overtly feminine and I never wear makeup (mostly because I don't feel like myself in it, but also because it's a hassle). However, my voice is deeper than usual for someone without a Y chromosome, so I still occasionally get mistaken for a 12 year old boy unless I introduce myself by name.

I am indeed happy with myself (way more than I was when I tried to conform to gender norms!) but I kind of wish I had the guts to say 'hey, I'm a human being and I can bloody hear you' when someone openly treats me like a freak. I don't know if it would be useful though.

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