Oliver Daff oliverdaff

Final Review - Comprehensive PR Review & Testing

Step 0: Determine Review Pass

Before starting, check the git history to determine if this is a follow-up review:

git log --oneline -10 | grep -i "Co-Authored-By: Claude"

Arch Linux Full-Disk Encryption Installation Guide

This guide provides instructions for an Arch Linux installation featuring full-disk encryption via LVM on LUKS, booting a signed unified kernel image with systemd-boot on UEFI systems.

Following the main installation are further instructions to harden against Evil Maid attacks via UEFI Secure Boot custom key enrollment and a self-signed boot loader and kernel image.

Tested in October 2026 on an HP ZBook Ultra G1a and in a QEMU/OVMF virtual machine: systemd 262, mkinitcpio 42.2, cryptsetup 2.8.8, linux 7.2.9, sbctl 0.18.

Preface

You will find most of this information pulled from the Arch Wiki and other resources linked thereof.

How to Change Open Files Limit on OS X and macOS

This text is the section about OS X Yosemite (which also works for macOS Sierra) from https://docs.basho.com/riak/kv/2.1.4/using/performance/open-files-limit/#mac-os-x

The last time i visited this link it was dead (403), so I cloned it here from the latest snapshot in Archive.org's Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20170523131633/https://docs.basho.com/riak/kv/2.1.4/using/performance/open-files-limit/

Mac OS X

To check the current limits on your Mac OS X system, run:

Edit: This list is now maintained in the rust-anthology repo.

Introduction
Ownership
- Where Rust Really Shines
- Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
The Problem with Single-threaded Shared Mutability

UPDATE: Excellent resource here: https://scund00r.com/all/oscp/2018/02/25/passing-oscp.html

How to pass the OSCP

Recon
Find vuln
Exploit
Escalate
Document it

Category theory jargon cheat sheet

A primer/refresher on the category theory concepts that most commonly crop up in conversations about Scala or FP. (Because it's embarassing when I forget this stuff!)

I'll be assuming Scalaz imports in code samples, and some of the code may be pseudo-Scala.

Functor

A functor is something that supports map.

	import os
	import codecs

	data_directory = os.path.join('..', 'data',
	'yelp_dataset_challenge_academic_dataset')

	businesses_filepath = os.path.join(data_directory,
	'yelp_academic_dataset_business.json')

	with codecs.open(businesses_filepath, encoding='utf_8') as f:

	# PowerView's last major overhaul is detailed here: http://www.harmj0y.net/blog/powershell/make-powerview-great-again/
	# tricks for the 'old' PowerView are at https://gist.github.com/HarmJ0y/3328d954607d71362e3c

	# the most up-to-date version of PowerView will always be in the dev branch of PowerSploit:
	# https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit/blob/dev/Recon/PowerView.ps1

	# New function naming schema:
	# Verbs:
	# Get : retrieve full raw data sets
	# Find : ‘find’ specific data entries in a data set

	From: http://redteams.net/bookshelf/
	Techie

	Unauthorised Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams by Wil Allsopp.
	Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy
	Practical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide by Deviant Ollam
	The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin Mitnick
	Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson and Hacking Exposed by Stuart McClure and others.
	Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning by Fyodor
	The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes by several authors