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Transformer-decoder language models

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Some notes on how transformer-decoder language models work, taking GPT-2 as an example, and with lots references in order to dig deeper.

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GitHub Copilot instructions

Give me your prompt, would you kindly?

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Extracting the system prompt from GitHub CoPilot.

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Bypassing XSS filters

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In this post, I am describing some payloads which I used to bypass two distinct XSS filter implementations (such as Web Application Firewalls (WAF)) as well as the approach to design them.

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WebSub sequence diagram

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A sequence diagram for WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub).

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The FBI recommends using ad blockers

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An interesting note from the FBI.

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UMA 2.0 diagrams

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Some diagrams (mostly sequence diagrams) about UMA 2.0.

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Notes on X3DH

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Some notes on X3DH (Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman).

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OpenSSH tunneling guide

“Welcome to the Warp Zone!”

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This post is an overview of the different tunneling options available in OpenSSH. This is inteded as a reference to use when I am explaining (every so often) how to use SSH for tunneling.

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Protocol stack diagrams

Layers all the way down

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A collection of ASCII-art protocol stack diagrams.

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Arbitrary code execution through kitty-open.desktop file association

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In Debian kitty package, the kitty-open.desktop file would associate kitty +open with several MIME types. This could be used to arbitrary trigger code execution by serving a file with such a MIME type.

This has been introduced in kitty in 73a197fcd (2022-02-06) released as part of v0.24.3. This has been fixed in v0.26.5-5 of the Debian kitty package. Fixed upstream in 537cabca7 released in v0.29.0. Other distributions such as Ubuntu Lunar are still impacted.

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