Jacopo Moioli

Deshittyfing Linkedin

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:08:36 +0100

Lately, I’ve tried to use social media less. My main objective was to reduce the time I spent on Instagram Reels, and in these first three months of 2026 I can say that I sort of accomplished that goal, maybe partially.

The issue is that part of the time I spent on IG is now being wasted elsewhere, on LinkedIn. Kinda weird, but I think that the fact that it is a little bit more useful than Instagram makes me hooked while feeling a bit less guilty.

Introducing gnirt

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:32:27 +0200

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of enterprise-grade solutions, I’m proud to announce gnirt: a groundbreaking, cloud-native, blockchain-enabled string analysis platform that leverages cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and quantum-resistant cryptographic protocols to deliver unparalleled performance in extracting human-readable sequences from binary data streams.

Just kidding!

Lately, I tried to allocate a bit of my free time to develop personal projects, focused on exploring in depth what interests me. The initial project of this kind that I decided to write is gnirt, which is a clone of GNU Strings binary utility written in C. But there’s a catch: it doesn’t use any #include directive!.

"Deep Work" by Cal Newport: Some Takeaways

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:23:58 +0200

This summer, while I was on holidays, I read “Deep Work” by Cal Newport.

This book fits well with some thoughts I had lately about handling stuff in my life, so in this post I’ll list some takeaways I’d like to apply in my everyday life, and then my 2 cents on this book, keeping in mind that I’m not really well-versed in this kind of genre.

Deep and Superficial

The main idea of this book is that there are 2 kinds of “works”:

My CTF Journey in 2025

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Hello all!

As the title of this post says, I want to do an overview of the CTFs i partecipated in during 2025.

Why? just because. I want to keep track of the progress, and maybe this will keep me motivated enough to partecipate in more of them? maybe!

The creation date of this post is: 18/07/2025. Last update: 24/08/2025.

August

BrunnerCTF 2025

Challenges Completed:

Rev
- Grandma’s Predictable Cookies (100)

I just wanted to solve a single challenge and it went good, I guess.

Hello World - v3

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:46:43 +0200

This is the first post in this blog, but not the first in my blog.

The first time i decided to build a blog was in July 2021, i had the idea in my mind for some time but, if i remember correctly i decided to actually do it, bought the domain, the VPS and everything, after watching a video of Luke Smith (This one, i guess? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKZVIGRAKQ).

The website was running on a Vultr VPS, and was built using Hugo. The repo of the website is still online, on gitlab.

Hacking with stuff cuz is fun 0x01

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:10:51 +0200

Or, how to mess with little snakes, my gate, my car, and my neighbors’ wifi networks

Oblomov

Yesterday night, after reading a bit of “Oblomov”, a book that tells the story of this passive, indecisive and lazy man (is really a whole lot deeper than this, but anyway), a man who needs 200 pages to get out of bed, and even after that, it’s not like he stays up for long, I thought about one of the biggest efforts I make every single day, at the very least twice a day: pressing the button that opens the gate of my house to drive out to work, and after 8 hours, re-pressing it to get back in. Who is still pressing buttons in the big 2025?

Embedded Reverse Engineering - 0x01

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:06:15 +0200

The other day this video by LowLevelLearning appeared on my YouTube homepage. Despite the clickbait title, it intrigued me, so I bought a CH341A to do some experimenting (here’s the amazon link of the one I got). Will this be the first post in a series? Maybe, IDK

Introduction

The vast majority of embedded devices uses one of these three types of flash memory to store the firmware that makes them work: NAND, eMMC or NOR flash.

OverTheWire Natas Writeups

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0200

Random writeups about OverTheWire Natas.

Decided to go there to focus a bit on web exploitation.

The writeup for each level is really short and basic, sorry for that. If you are specifically interested in a write-up of this challenge and are not here by accident, check this by Jack Halon.

If you really want to hurt yourself, scroll down a bit.

Natas 0

Right click > view page source

<!--The password for natas1 is g9D9cREhslqBKtcA2uocGHPfMZVzeFK6 -->

Natas 1

You can find the password for the next level on this page, but rightclicking has been blocked!

PicoGym Random Writeups

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:49:04 +0200

Because of my imminent work in a Red team, I wanted to practice a bit with some CTF challenges.

I tried hackthebox, but I didn’t liked it because is too guided and “step by step”. I then went over to PicoCTF’s PicoGym. Even if it’s for high school students, I find it quite good.

Web Exploitation

Search Source - 100p

The developer of this website mistakenly left an important artifact in the website source, can you find it? The website is here

Flare On 9 Writeup

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:35:22 +0100

Here’s my write up of the first challenge of the Flare-On 9 CTF, and a log of my attempts for the second challenge.

I’ve managed to complete just the first challenge, which was kinda simple. I tried quite a bit with the second one but I stuck to a static analysis approach, which probably required more than my current skills in order to be successful. In any case, it was very interesting and I learned a bit more about Windows binaries