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• 2021-01-07 https://subreply.com/colejhudson/kjb "Ciro Santilli is an interesting corner case in the pantheon of high-conscientious, mostly online(?) individuals. Other notable figures here being Alexey Guzey, Gwern, etc." Being compared to a God? Check. To be fair, the Taiwanese had previously called Ciro 神. But first English one anyways.
• 2020-12-25 https://iwiki.woa.com/ to /markdown-style-guide/zh.html Likely another page tencent bought from a small fading American company like oa.com. It previously belonged to World Airways http://web.archive.org/web/20080904025838/http://woa.com/ a military flight contractor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Airways highly active during the Vietnam War, and which went bust in 2014. Ironic, no? It also gives some hints into the meaning of "oa": iOA is some kind of identity management for Tencent. https://fonow.com/view/262344.html gives some detail in English on top, mentioning it is about "Zero Trust": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Trust_Networks
• 2020-12-17 http://skrox.fr/SLAE64-Assignment-3-Egg-Hunter-Shellcode/ x86-paging
• 2020-12-07 https://tapd.oa.com/markdown-style-guide/zh.html which from previous analysis is Tencent owned. What tapd might be is explained at https://www.tapd.cn/ and https://www.tapd.cn/faq/ Looks like a Tencent Atlassian alternative. https://archive.vn/*.oa.com shows other oa.com subdomains.
• 2020-12-06 https://classroom.google.com hits to x86-paging, 8 hits. Closed course management systems. No respect. One of them leaked a path: https://classroom.google.com/u/0/w/MTQzNTE4MDkxNTEy/t/all
• 2020-10-01 from https://piazza.com to x86-paging. Closed course management systems. No respect.
• 2020-09-26 https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/77913444/big-endian-vs-little-endian | https://archive.vn/wip/VWMUT "My point was that there are very few people like me. Hardly anyone (especially amateurs) writes compilers and they all use LLVM or if they're crazy they output assembly. There's basically no information out there on generating ELF executables. The only website of any use I found was https://cirosantilli.com/elf-hello-world and even then I had to spend hours staring at hexdump and trying things out. 508 byte hello world is pretty cool though." OMGF, endianness is a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Etymology "Gulliver's Travels, he portrays the conflict between sects of Lilliputians divided into those breaking the shell of a boiled egg from the big end or from the little end. He called them the "Big-Endians" and the "Little-Endians"."
• 2020-09-23 http://git.code.oa.com/wegame_server/rail/blob/master/docs/web_and_web_api/web-api-specification/web-api-specification.md to /markdown-style-guide/zh.html https://www.domainholdings.com/recent-sales/2-letter-com-owners/ says oa.com belongs to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroenke_Sports_%26_Entertainment which is American, so it looks weird. Wegame could refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeGame from Tencent, which feels likely. This 2016 comment confirms: https://github.com/Tencent/tinker/issues/1#issuecomment-249347795 "That URL [android.oa.com] is our internal AOSP mirror site. The fixed version of gradle-wrapper.properties is pushed, you can pull master branch to fix this issue. Really sorry about this." Also at: https://github.com/Tencent/mars/issues/3 at a similar time in 2016.
  • https://domainnamewire.com/author/kasseylee/ mentions that oa.com was sold for $609,068 in 2020, and references https://namebio.com/?s==QjN2UTN1kjM which gives date, value and sale location (https://sedo.com) but not buyer and seller info. https://domainnamewire.com/2020/09/16/why-are-two-letter-domains-so-sought-after-in-china/ says such domains are highly sought after in China.
  • the current latest web archive from 2020-02-15 shows a redirect to sedo. The last non-redirect archive (see archive color is blue) is http://web.archive.org/web/20180922210745/http://oa.com/ which is an HTML0.1 looking website, therefore likely the original honest registrant, OA stands for "Object Automation". But that snapshot already says "MEMBER OF KSE HOLDING". This 1998(!) post talks about their product OAutomation: https://www.controleng.com/articles/objectautomation-ships-oaenterprise/ Congrats, maybe you've made a few millions selling out to KSE, but you will be forgotten in history, dear close sourcers, not even a wiki page. The only memory of you is "the ex-owner of oa.com". The first archive is from 1997 http://web.archive.org/web/19970420083744/http://www.oa.com/
  • so it is interesting that in 2016 Tencent had already bought the domain, but the homepage was unchanged. Shady as fuck. They also own we.com of course: https://www.namepros.com/blog/we-com-sales-price-was-8million-buyer-revealed.873017/
• 2020-09-21 https://boards.4channel.org/g//thread/77842524/itt-weird-sites-you-found-by-accident Google search text (no cache): "ITT: weird sites you found by accident" comment: "https://cirosantilli.com/ this is some guys resume who repeats his own name well over 1,000 times." Archive of an archiver: https://archive.vn/wip/Zz7fx
• 2020-09-09 https://mail.viettel.com.vn/ to elf-hello-world A consultancy it seems.
• 2020-09-02 https://cs.csub.edu/~melissa/cs4510-f20/lab2.html
• 2020-08-08 https://research.alpha-sense.com to elf-hello-world. Profile: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/alphasense-a-search-engine-for-analysis-and-business-intel-raises-50m-led-by-innovation-endeavors/
• 2020-07-27 https://login.sso.philips.com to elf-hello-world
• 2020-05-15 http://stash.ovh.net/projects/AGORA/repos/doc/pull-requests/164/overview to markdown-style-guide so possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH
• 2020-05-13 http://pinboard.in/u:ashwincnaik/t:people_to_follow/ private bookmarks of https://github.com/ashwincnaik
• 2020-05-05 http://shahenn.com/linksys/my-links.php to elf-hello-world No info on the website, feels like a personal server.
• 2020-05-03 https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/75728413 (Ciro started a thread asking people there to ping him)
• 2020-04-30 https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/75687327/interesting-website-thread | http://archive.is/LgDbK "Interesting Website thread" "https://cirosantilli.com/ What is even this?", "a guy who says his name over 500 times in his resume." (this is not cirosantilli.com is not my resume, it is your life) 'A CIA Glownigger that is pushing the "china bad narrative"' https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/tree/58d22899bbf80e6a593d2e136dca23868ed9eaf1#cia-funding
• 2020-04-28 some vk.com link to elf-hello-world 23 hits
• 2020-04-24 https://zulip.xes-mad.com to / Likely Zulip chat of these embedded military contractors: https://www.xes-inc.com/ TODO what MAD stands for.
• 2020-04-01 https://juliangr.github.io/Hello-World/ "I happen to spend some of my time in the weekends reading other’s blogs (promise to write a future post about my inspirations) and I couldn’t be more delighted by some stuff you find (if you are going to click only in one link in this blog, let it be this one: cirosantilli.com)"
• 2020-04-01 https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/75253406/im-on-torbrowser-can-anyone-give-me-sites-for "cirosantilli.com (forgot to archive, click on link after the 219th occurrence of ciro santilli DO NOT ENABLE JAVASCRIPT AFTER CLICKING LINK!!!)"
• 2020-03-16 https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/75097729/who-is-this-guy | http://archive.is/W1ocv side effect of a 2020-03-15 hacker news event: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/wiki Mostly supportive. Ciro learnt what "based" means.
• 2020-03: unknown Twitter links to home: jmA3f73aQh , rTtE5rrwU6
• 2020-03-03: an intelligent dude commending Ciro's one megapage approach: https://t.co/HVAcVsyQsn
• 2020-02: to markdown style guide: https://blogguide.ropensci.org/technical.html
• 2020-02: to markdown style guide: https://bitbucket-dev.glb.syfbank.com/projects/CENG/repos/aws-standards/pull-requests/43/overview Likely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrony_Financial e.g. "syfbank" appears at: https://www.synchronybank.com/sites/syfbank/documents/wres010018.pdf Possibly a reference to GLBA Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
• 2020-02: https://ev.turnitin.com/app/carta/en_us/ to x86-paging A learning website, ev must be the subdomain of some customer company. EV could also be Electric Vehicle.
• 2020-02 http://rsapp.jp/private/wiki/pages/viewpage.action to git tutorial. Can't find what it is easily.
• 2019-11: https://campus.eseo.fr/pluginfile.php/114555/mod_resource/content/1/CS6.html to ELF
• 2019-11: https://norcada.teamwork.com/launchpad/login/projects?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fnorcada.teamwork.com%2Findex.cfm to oxford-nanopore-river-bacteria A https://www.teamwork.com/ instance by https://www.norcada.com/
• 2019-11: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/pfonseca/teaching/cs503/19fall/labs/lab2.html ELF
• 2019-09: https://linuxhint.com/understanding_elf_file_format/ | http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174821/https://linuxhint.com/understanding_elf_file_format/ to ELF hello world
• 2019-07: https://ibugone.com/skills/ | http://web.archive.org/web/20190716081132/https://ibugone.com/skills/
• 2019-06: https://github.com/Max-Novak | http://archive.is/tglui we have a lot in common, save education and China!
• 2019-06: https://www.mentebinaria.com.br/forums/topic/528-um-exemplo-de-talvez-o-menor-execut%C3%A1vel-%C3%BAtil-que-voc%C3%AA-pode-escrever-em-c/ to ELF cheat
• 2018-04: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/35587852 (archive) copy paste of https://cirosantilli.com/x86-paging
• 2018-03 https://lobste.rs/s/hbllwz/ciro_santilli_s_grading_system_for
• 2018-03 https://pandolia.net/mybookmarks.html | http://web.archive.org/web/20190303191957/https://pandolia.net/mybookmarks.html
• 2018-02: https://osandamalith.com/2019/02/11/linux-reverse-engineering-ctfs-for-beginners/ to ELF hello world
• 2018-12-28 http://www.cirosantilli.com/markdown-style-guide/#dollar-signs-in-shell-code twitter fOSXiCyaPR TODO find source
• 2018-11-26 http://web.archive.org/web/20181126123625/https://news.ycombinator.com
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18531393
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a0jo1a/how_to_run_a_program_without_an_operating_system/
  • reached year top 100: http://web.archive.org/web/20181203125050/https://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/year/stackoverflow/2018-01-01/895245 and top 0.02%. Likely will fall later :-)
• 2018-10: https://www.spinics.net/lists/newbies/msg60999.html | https://www.linkedin.com/in/XceptN/
• 2018-08:
  • http://notify.bluecoat.com/notify-Notify_ING_User_3 to markdown style guide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems
  • http://login.ext.hpe.com/ to skills, some HR person then
• 2018-08: http://sandboxng.ml/about/ | https://web.archive.org/web/20180809213634/http://sandboxng.ml/about/ I inspired someone :-)
• 2018-07: in-blr01-fw01-trust-nxn.nxn.nxp.com:6080/php/browser_challenge.php ELF hello world. Looks like an URL hider. What is blr?
• 2018-06: https://twitter.com/novoreorx/status/1007494441404284934 I'm officially a shuaige now. http://archive.is/0wp6C Timing suspiciously close to: https://github.com/cirosantilli/chat/issues/35
• http://iprism500.lhi.com/cgi-bin/nph-xauth to markdown style guide. TODO what is it.
• http://notify.vwag.com/notify-NotifyUser-VW-like-english to ELF cheat. TODO volkswagen related, or something else? Why can't I access that domain?
• 2017-11: http://sp2k13main/wiki/Seiten/Team_SoftwareSystemsEngineering.aspx to markdown style guide. TODO what is this.
• 2017-11: http://cfsrating.sonicwall.com:8080/cfs/actions/rating.do to /. Hosted sonicwall.com for https://www.linkedin.com/company/cfs-rating/
• 2017-11: http://qwiki.qualcomm.com/qct-corebsp-badger/ELF:Understanding_&_Analysis to elf cheat
  • Software: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qwikiwiki/
  • bsp: board support package
  • qct: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, qualcomms semicon division, CDMA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-division_multiple_access
  • badger: "B-family chipset" https://developer.qualcomm.com/forum/qdn-forums/mobile-technologies/multimedia-optimization-hexagon-sdk/toolsinstallation/27110
• 2017-09: https://login.ext.hpe.com to home
• 2017-08: http://kr2.samsung.net/static/mail/mailDetail.html to /elf-tutorial Whois points to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SDS kr is Korea.
• 2017-07: http://foros.3dgames.com.ar/threads/888306-offtopic-oficial-charlas-de-cafe-hay-slack-(pedir-inv-pasen-mail)/page307
• 2017-06: http://km.oa.com/articles/show/329260 to ELF hello world
• 2017-06: http://chengjiajun.huawei.com:9082/ to /markdown-style-guide
• 2017-06: https://hackernoon.com/believe-it-or-not-github-edition-90e61a1bdf4b streak saga
• 2017-06: http://hrlw.co.uk/dok/doku.php to markdown style guide
• 2017-06: http://osdem.cs.technik.fhnw.ch/index.php to /x86-paging
• 2017-06: http://www.fileformat.info/news/2017/05/31/links_2017_05.htm
• 2017-06-19 http://www.ucptt.com/article/Gossiping/1497828949/9A4 http://web.archive.org/web/20180224033222/http://www.ucptt.com/article/Gossiping/1497828949/9A4 using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System
• 2017-05-17: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14359159 300 points, top of front page, get ready for da bomb! https://web.archive.org/web/20170517174951/https://news.ycombinator.com/news Got 6 upvotes on SO answer in a day, checked HN, was not let down!!
  • https://twitter.com/r3l0z/status/864970932552699904 1k followers
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6bpvpi/elf_hello_world/ 15 upvotes
  • http://www.cirosantilli.com/elf-hello-world/ 5 upvotes
  • http://itbsbfvlnt8kchnvv6bps0c41tuot1h1.gadgets.mitre.org:7012/gmodules/gadgets/ifr must be some internal aggregator of: https://www.mitre.org/ See also: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/IknCf00onlA;context-place=topicsearchin/websearch/authorid$3AAPn2wQdOebeJrsIqsAcwBpNTVqT5SWJiKLwYMDMa2Vtkuig8SzGKPeIYoQdUAm8mvOd7f9p7hQke%7Csort:date%7Cspell:false Likely linked to their cyber security activities.
  • https://twitter.com/binitamshah/status/865127457329786880 30k followers
  • https://twitter.com/Miguel_Arroyo76 5k followers
  • https://www.facebook.com/linuxtechnologytidbits/posts/828156057323012 4k follows
  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/programmerMagazine/permalink/1705745699442139/ 18k follows
  • http://www.weibo.com/2219459717/F3Dhn1xsm?from=page_1005052219459717_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment 300 follows
• 2017-05: http://mattmcshane.com/ (list of links)
• 2017-04: http://www.neighborhoodtechie.com/2017/04/what-was-i-reading-in-march-2017.html
• 2017-04: http://www.pearltrees.com/xatziprism/executables-elf-obj/id17497003
• 2017-04: http://ju.outofmemory.cn/entry/243518 to markdown style guide
• 2017-04: https://gerrit-va.unx.sas.com an internal gerrit instance from SAS, but no path, linking to /markdown-style-guide . So what is unx? Maybe Unix as in: https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostunx/61879/HTML/default/viewer.htm#titlepage.htm
• 2017-03-01: huge influx (8k views, largest ever) due to hacker news x86 paging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773219 (140 points). Led to further influxes from usual secondary websites:
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5wxvah/x86_paging_tutorial/ (50 upvotes)
  • https://twitter.com/binitamshah/status/837110197155942400 (30k followers),
  • https://lobste.rs/s/xhnwta/x86_paging_tutorial (7 upvotes)
  • https://twitter.com/0xAX/status/837218418109607936 5k follows
  • https://twitter.com/dariomanesku/status/838174351690248193 1k follows
  • jira/confluence/display/QTEAM/2017/03/06/News+digest+%252390 anonymized Confluence of some mystery company. Wonder which one! Only clue is the QTEAM thing. Quality assurance team of some silicon company!?
• 2017-03: http://bbs.pediy.com/thread-216495.htm hacking links x86 paging. https://web.archive.org/web/20170510055210/http://bbs.pediy.com/thread-216495.htm
• 2017-02 http://newsmth.net/frames.html TODO http://www.hd315.gov.cn/beian/view.asp?bianhao=010202005082200559 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_public_security_bureau
• 2017-02 TODO facebook large elf-hello-world influx
• 2017-02 twitter 8qxPa4lmVM twitter profile itself! :-)
• notify.discoverfinancial/notify-Legal_Notice_Splash_Page TODO
• 2017 https://github.ibm.com to /x86-paging/
• 2016-11: http://heavy-ion-collisions.info/protected/private_mp/ whois of domain by https://twitter.com/mploskon
• 2016-06: http://twiki.amd.com/twiki/bin/view/ZNVerif/ZenX86MindShareTraining Cool, an AMD internal wiki is linking to me! :-) MindShare is a training partner: http://developer.amd.com/partners/training-partners/mindshare/ They've linked to /x86-paging/
• 2016-02: http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-worldlook-1631253-1.shtml and http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-333-824891-1.shtml likely same author of https://disqus.com/home/discussion/cirosantilli/home_ciro_santilli_73/#comment-2522709535 and http://www.weibo.com/5601627311/DiAfrySOP and http://lz66.com.cn/lz66_tytz/1e6bo77j6aiiw9jppaG,1d6VZ5Wfq2hrkg==.html?from=page_1005055601627311_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&type=comment ? Archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20160219085222/http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-worldlook-1631253-1.shtml | https://web.archive.org/web/20170510054103/http://lz66.com.cn/lz66_tytz/1e6bo77j6aiiw9jppaG,1d6VZ5Wfq2hrkg==.html
  • https://www.zhihu.com/question/34775392/answer/87045074 |
• 2015-11 http://tangzx.qiniudn.com/note-00001.html
• 2015-08-18: https://www.v2ex.com/t/214015 again
• 2015-06-10: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/298950/are-political-profiles-that-could-possibly-affect-the-participations-of-other-us
• 2015-06-05: 70K follower RT: https://twitter.com/zuola
• 2015-06 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4909c5150102wc31.html
• 2015-05-30: 30K + 20K follower tweets: https://twitter.com/ZhouFengSuo/status/604461488716144640 https://twitter.com/L5d/status/604512128083574784
• 2015-04-24 https://www.douban.com/group/topic/74560582/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150427012513/http://www.douban.com/group/topic/74560582
• 2015-04-23 10K follower RT: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/590993653470011393
• 2015-04-09 largest peak on analytics so far: http://v2ex.com/t/182766 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/V2EX because of anti communist messages
• 2015-03-26 176 follower RT: https://twitter.com/nybblr/status/581109381632245760
• 2015-03-21 went public about xiaohua's mother in prison
• 2014-12-06 Hacker News 4 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706805
• 2014-11-29 Commonmark Forum 2 likes: http://talk.commonmark.org/t/style-guide-for-commonmark/935/6

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• http://heh.wodemo.com/entry/335579