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Almost two years ago (when covid was just starting and we all happily ignored it) I wrote a post about implementing x86 hardware breakpoints in lldb. This critical debugger feature was missing from lldb. Probably because lldb main users are developers and not serious reverse engineers (lol!) dealing with malicious code and/or just reversing/cracking hostile software protections (cracking is the best and most fun RE target practice). The build process described in that post worked but I wasn’t very happy with it - not easily portable between macOS systems. Some time ago I tried to fix it but I gave up since I wasn’t in the mood to deal with build systems problems. ...

For quite some time I have wanted to build a site where I could share links to the stuff I read online. There must be already plenty of sites to solve this but none satisfies my main requisite: to be under my full control. I rather do all the work myself than giving up control to a third-party that can lock me down for any reason (Twitter for example). It’s a price that I am willing to pay. One of the main obstacles to build the site was that I needed to add/edit information from my desktop and tablet. I am definitely not a cloud fan so using it to sync between devices was out of question (people do it with Evernote, etc). For a while I thought about developing a mobile or web application to achieve this but was too lazy for that. Last weekend the right idea popped in my mind (I think I was reading something about the topic). I could use GitHub to store the data that I need to edit between devices, and GitHub actions to automate the build process. GitHub allows unlimited private repositories to free users, and the data to store there isn’t critical. I would always have a local copy and if GitHub bans me the impact is meaningless - they are just an intermediary and both ends are controlled by me. ...

Amnesty International finally dropped the bomb and released a report about FinSpy spyware made by FinFisher Gmbh. The most interesting thing was the revelation of Mac and Linux versions, something that was missing from previous reports on this commercial malware (Kaspersky, Wikileaks). ...

No. I just clickbaited you but don’t leave yet, keep reading for something fun! ...

Lately I have been working on a new blog post about running macOS on Ryzen via KVM/QEMU. There was a need to change some blog code and because my theme fork is two years or so outdated, I decided last night to dive deep into updating and fixing it. ...