whoami
I’m a Kenyan based hacker , passionate about
- Electronics hacking and forward engineering
- Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Research
- Secure Mobile Devices ( hardening android devices )
- Custom Operating Systems ( eg. Graphene OS , Sailfish OS )
- Most importantly making cool things or boring things cool :-) …
- Anything that peaks my intellectual curiosity
If I need to figure out how to dump the firmware from the flash chip or modify a piece of software to do some neat things !? Then I’m probably interested.
I write code in :
Nim , Python , C
Hardware
My daily driver is the Lenovo ThinkPad T470s Notebook which has :
DDR4 Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 2133 MHz (0.5 ns) 16GB RAM
CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7600U CPU @ 2.80GHz overclocked to 3.9GHz
STORAGE: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 512GB NVMe Disk
Programs
Text Editor
I use neovim as my code daily editor becuase of it minimalist footprint and speed. It also fast and effiencient once you get a hang of the various key mappings which can be customized.
Graphic Manipulation / Design
I use photopea https://www.photopea.com/ for quick editing tasks and photoshop when doing long editing sessions, for example editing photos of PCBs i’m looking at or any electronic that has it’s guts out really :)
Books
These are some of my favourite books in programming and other concepts
Beginners.re
Proof of Concept or GTFO
Paged Out Technical Magazine
Hacker’s Delights
Kolban’s Book on ESP32 and ESP8266
The Art of Software Security Assessment
K&R C Programming Language 2nd Edition