Dusty
Hi, I'm Dusty, or Chloride Cull, or whatever name you'll find me using. I work as a Software Developer, and do some programming in my spare time too. I do some hardware stuff as well, and some infosec stuff.
I'm ace/aro, my gender is complicated, and my pronouns are he/him.
You've got my social links below.
lonks
latest pawsts :3
PhisonTool - reverse engineering a toolkit
Phison is a taiwanese manufacturer of USB flash drive controllers - they are extremely simple for manufacturers to use, just wire up a NAND chip, flash the firmware, and off you go! This means you'll find this controller in most USB flash drives, cheap or not.
viewCracking Enterprise Software for Fun and no Profit
Ever since I was a broke teen, I've had an interest in reverse engineering software, and cracking it. I've always been one of those weird people who want to run a bunch of enterprise software.
viewArtwork gallery for commissions
I've created an artwork gallery for all my commissions, as well as spiffed up the styling a bit. Feel free to take a look - and see below for a behind the scenes look on how it's done.
view.well-known/button.json support!
I've just added support for /.well-known/button.json with a button of my own.
Analyzing a prolific adware downloader
Let me start with the TL;DR; - there's an adware network that's been running since at least 2015, and is still active today. I start pulling on the thread by analyzing an infected file from 2018.
viewMy #CheapPCChallenge2022 entry
As I'm writing this, I've just finished with the scoring benchmarks for my entry to Shyra's #CheapPCChallenge2022. I decided to go for something a bit extreme - taking the word cheap to the next level - and plenty of spanners were thrown in the works along the way. I'm surprised I got it as far as I got it!
viewMy Rimworld Mod Recommendations
Thought I should compile a list of mods I recommend for RimWorld. Unless otherwise noted, these are all compatible with version 1.3 of the game.
viewChronicles in Reverse Engineering: Gumroad
Update 2022-02: They've added automatic zip downloads some time since I wrote this.
Update 2024-10: Guess what? They've removed it again. Time to dig out the code, I suppose.
Back to Web 1.0
I've decided to make this place objectively more fun, and less sterile. Here's a side by side comparison, for funsies - you can click them to open the screenshots in fullscreen.
viewOh look, a blog
Thought this would be better than the old single page with an image. Need some place for longer technical stuff, I suppose.
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