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Undistractionate Instagram

12 December 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in random

Instagram is great at sucking as much time out of you as possible. While I enjoy seeing what people I know get up to, I find myself spending hours looking at random reels that add little value to my life. So I wrote a quick adblock list to block the app parts I don’t actually want to see. Specifically, it blocks:

The “Explore” tab
The “Reels” tab
Any suggested posts after you’ve seen all posts from accounts you follow

HTB 2023 – WindowsOfOpportunity

08 December 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, decompile, ghidra, and rev

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HTB 2023 – BioBundle

08 December 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, cyberchef, decompile, ghidra, and rev

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TCP1P 2023 – Lock the Lock

13 October 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, decompile, pyc, python, rev, and tree

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Three Step Plan to Security

02 October 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in cybersecurity

tl;dr: Properly use a password manager on an up-to-date, backed-up device.

Ghidrion

07 July 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in Ghidra, cybersecurity, rev, and symbex

For my bachelor’s thesis, Silvan Flum and I developed Ghidrion, a plugin for Ghidra that allows the use of Morion, a suite of tools to use symbolic execution.

picoCTF 2023 – who is it

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, email, forensics, and whois

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picoCTF 2023 – useless

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, grep, and man

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picoCTF 2023 – rotation

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in crypto, ctf, cyberchef, and rot13

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picoCTF 2023 – repetitions

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in base64, ctf, and python

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picoCTF 2023 – hideme

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in binwalk, ctf, forensics, and steg

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picoCTF 2023 – findme

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in base64, ctf, curl, cyberchef, and web

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picoCTF 2023 – Safe Opener 2

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, decompile, java, and rev

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picoCTF 2023 – SOAP

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, injection, web, and xxe

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picoCTF 2023 – Reverse

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, grep, rev, and strings

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picoCTF 2023 – ReadMyCert

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in cert, crypto, csr, ctf, and openssl

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picoCTF 2023 – PcapPoisoning

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, forensics, grep, pcap, and strings

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picoCTF 2023 – More SQLi

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, injection, sql, sqlmap, and web

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picoCTF 2023 – MSB

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, forensics, grep, steg, and stegonline

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picoCTF 2023 – HideToSee

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in crypto, ctf, forensics, python, steg, and steghide

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picoCTF 2023 – FindAndOpen

28 March 2023 – Written by Valentin Huber – in base64, ctf, cyberchef, forensics, pcap, and zip

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bsides2022 – Ninja 2

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, flask, injection, python, and web

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bsides2022 – Ninja 1

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, flask, injection, python, and web

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bsides2022 – Hinokuni

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, injection, sql, and web

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bsides2022 – Extreme

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, injection, web, and xxe

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bsides2022 – Crypto 3

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ascii, crypto, and ctf

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bsides2022 – Confused

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in audio, ctf, forensics, mp3, and steg

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bsides2022 – Apples

17 October 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in ctf, php, and web

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Undistractionate YouTube

25 February 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in random

One thing I’ve done in the past is use a combination of hacks to hide certain distractions in YouTube to prevent me from falling down rabbit holes. Requirements (this is personal and might be different for you!):

13 minutes to the moon

30 January 2022 – Written by Valentin Huber – in podcasts

“13 minutes to the moon” might just be the best podcast ever made. Produced by the BBC, with a soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, it explores two of NASAs Apollo missions to the moon.