Ace Pace

@acepace.bsky.social

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Recovering Windows Internals researcher turned hpc architect turned Web Apps security researcher. There is never enough time, thank you for yours.

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What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is
when you’re debugging a kernel driver and you look at a memory dump and you see that a pointer has a value of 7. THERE IS
NO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE THAT IS ALIGNED ON
7. Furthermore, 7 IS TOO SMALL AND ONLY EVIL CODE
WOULD TRY TO ACCESS SMALL NUMBER MEMORY.
Misaligned, small-number memory accesses have stolen
decades from my life. The only things worse than misaligned,
small-number memory accesses are accesses with aligned buffer pointers, but impossibly large buffer lengths. Nothing ruins
a Friday at 5 P.M. faster than taking one last pass through the
log file and discovering a word-aligned buffer address, but a
buffer length of NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IN THE UNIVERSE