The wings of a computer engineer
The wings of a computer engineer

Personal blog for Timothy D Meadows II

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The wings of a computer engineer

The wings of a computer engineer

Personal blog for Timothy D Meadows II

Arc Raiders - Discord SDK Data Exposure

Summary During gameplay of Arc Raiders, private Discord Direct Message (DM) conversations between two users were found being written in plaintext to a local game log file. Additionally, a full Discord Bearer authentication token was found stored in the same log file. These findings represent serious privacy and security violations that af…

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SBAC: State-Based Access Control

Modern security systems are very good at answering the question: “Is this identity allowed to perform this action?” They are far less effective at answering: “Is this action correct right now?” Most real-world security failures occur in this gap. Actions are authenticated, authorized, schema-valid, and yet behaviorally wrong. Endpoint…

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Modeling Subsurface Market Dynamics

⚠️This article is for educational and engineering purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice, investment recommendations, or trading signals. Use the information at your own risk. Currency markets are volatile, and you should do your own research before making any financial decisions. In the first iteration called the tides m…

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Gods Unchained - Sealed API

Summary On 3/10/2024 the Council of Mortals asked me to audit the sealed portion of the Gods Unchained client to verify if it was actually possible to use cards that where not in your sealed pool, in your sealed deck. This audit was limited in scope to sealed, and validation that the exploit found only affected sealed. This post is disclo…

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A pillar of strength

In shifting sands, stood a pillar strong and true, Ninety-seven years of wisdom, in skies of the deepest blue. She, a beacon of resilience, in every storm, a guiding light, Her strength, a legacy unyielding, through day and into night. Her hands, once busy with love's labor, teaching young minds, In the chill of life's harsh winters,…

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R2GU - 1/27

Summary Since this is the first post, this update will also contain a short summary of the project. Roughly 2 weeks ago, i decided i wanted to build a robot from Gods Unchained. This is something i used to do for fun, though, previously i had to stop building them due to time constraints. The original plan was to build a glorified RC car,…

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Language Understanding, Part 2

In the last article on language understanding we went over the basic concepts of what language understanding can be, and how this might apply to an intelligent application that accepts free user input. Microsoft .NET provides a host of ways to train, and consume AI models. This includes both online (azure), and offline (ml.net). By defaul…

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