About
CTF player · security researcher
Hi, I'm hotwater. I play capture-the-flag competitions and spend most of my free time staring at disassemblers, packet captures and half-broken binaries.
This site is my lab notebook: the challenges I solve, the dead ends I hit, and the tricks I want to remember next time. The flag is just the receipt — the writeup is the actual work.
Just getting started — Structuring the archive
Imported all of my private solve folders into this site so that every challenge from here on gets a public writeup with the full methodology.
Status page: personal details, links and the beefy bio are being written — check back soon.
Current — Weekend CTF grinder
Mostly binary exploitation and crypto, with detours into network forensics and mobile when a challenge looks weird enough to be interesting.