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Learn the things other AIs won't teach you.

Reverse engineering, security research, deobfuscation, AI tooling. Practical articles, no hedging. Each one ends with a prompt you can run in Aether to go deeper.

AI tooling

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Why ChatGPT refuses reverse-engineering questions (and what to do instead)
ChatGPT and Claude trigger a refusal layer on most RE, malware-analysis, and exploit-dev questions — even purely educational ones. Here's what's actually happening, and a pragmatic alternative.
6 min readMay 7, 2026

Reverse engineering

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x86-64 calling conventions cheatsheet (System V & Microsoft x64)
Complete reference for the two dominant 64-bit calling conventions: register usage, stack alignment, varargs, and how each one looks in disassembly.
8 min readMay 7, 2026

Deobfuscation

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JavaScript deobfuscation: a practical guide to Obfuscator.io, JScrambler, and beyond
Three concrete techniques for unwinding modern JavaScript obfuscation: string-array decoders, control-flow flattening, and dead-code injection. Examples in Babel.
9 min readMay 7, 2026

Security

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Stack-based buffer overflows: a walkthrough that actually explains the exploit
From vulnerable C code to RIP control on a 64-bit Linux target — what each step does, what each modern mitigation breaks, and why the defenses look the way they do.
10 min readMay 7, 2026

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Learn the things other AIs won't teach you.

Why ChatGPT refuses reverse-engineering questions (and what to do instead)

x86-64 calling conventions cheatsheet (System V & Microsoft x64)

JavaScript deobfuscation: a practical guide to Obfuscator.io, JScrambler, and beyond

Stack-based buffer overflows: a walkthrough that actually explains the exploit

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