Hey! I'm Sylvain Kerkour 👋
This is my personal site where I write about how to (ab)use technology for fun and profit: using it to your advantage to make money online and find simple and elegant solutions to the hard problems of modern life ☀️
- Programming: With software we can introduce automation and scale into our life, which allows us to work less and more efficiently.
- Hacking: In order to build great stuff, prevent attacks and defend ourselves we need to understand how to break (into) things.
- Entrepreneurship: Having your own online business lets you live on your own terms. You do what you want, when you want, where you want. You don't have to ask the permission.
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Entrepreneurship & Productivity
- (Ab)using technology for fun & profit
- Overthinking
- Engineer vs Entrepreneur Mindset
- Entropy is Fatal
- Alignment: What Buddhism can teach us about success
- Am I going to die if I ditch my phone?
Hacking
- Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
- Signatures: The foundations of modern end-to-end encryption
- Position Independent Shellcodes in Rust (PIC)
- Advanced shellcode in Rust
- Hacking Stories #1 - The Evil Twin
- Hacking Stories #3 - The Puppet Master
- Why Rust for offensive security
- Let's talk about supply chain attacks and backdoored dependencies
Programming
- Secure and immutable development environments with Dev Containers
- Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
- Clean and Scalable Architecture for Web Applications in Rust
- Functional Programming in Rust
- HTTP Security Headers: The Best Practices
- Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
- Cooperative vs Preemptive scheduling
Contact & Social 🐣
I'm not active on social networks because they are too noisy and time sucking, by design.
That being said, you can send me an email:
And I'm also on GitHub: skerkour
Please don't take it personally if I take time to reply, I may be somewhere without internet access or in the middle of a deep work session.
Reading list 📖
Want to learn Rust, cryptography and offensive security? Get my book Black Hat Rust!