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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:29:19 JST Matthew Garrett

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   Anyway simply mechanically copying potentially interesting looking sequences of bytes into search engines is an incredibly underrated part of reverse engineering work

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:29:21 JST Matthew Garrett

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     Did you know that you can impress people by just pasting some bytes into github search and then saying "Ah yes that's an EFI-spec RSA2048-SHA256 signature" (you do not need to do the github bit in front of them)

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:29:22 JST Matthew Garrett

     It's been the sort of day where I discover that I have a surprisingly useful ability to intuit fields in headers that are probably uuids and figure out what this structure is as a result