Resources

People often ask me "How did you learn how to hack?" The answer: by reading. This page is a collection of the blog posts and other articles that I have accumulated over the years of my journey. Enjoy!

The Microsoft Edge Developer VM were images that Microsoft published to make testing on different versions of Edge or IE easier. One day, while looking at processes on Windows, they noticed a Ruby script associated with Puppet running. Puppet is a configuration management system that they had seen in the past.

Confusingly, the Puppet configuration was never setup. By initializing it yourself, you're able to take control of the instance. This requires the ability to edit the hostname puppet to point to a particular IP though.

Software NOT being configured or being able to reconfigure is a real bug class that needs to be considered. Low impact but still interesting none-the-less.