<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Conor's site</title><link>https://plotem.dev/</link><description>Recent content on Conor's site</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://plotem.dev/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>About</title><link>https://plotem.dev/about/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://plotem.dev/about/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a second-year computer science student with a strong interest in security
and CTFs. I also like building random things when an idea grabs me, whether or
not it turns into anything useful :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="find-me"&gt;Find me&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;GitHub: &lt;a href="https://github.com/plotem"&gt;plotem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="what-im-into"&gt;What I&amp;rsquo;m into&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Security and CTFs:&lt;/strong&gt; I&amp;rsquo;ll be posting writeups here as I work through
challenges and competitions. (also a big backlog to publish too!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linux:&lt;/strong&gt; I&amp;rsquo;m a big fan for both desktop and server! My main desktop runs Fedora with KDE, and my laptop runs Debian with XFCE.. As for my homelab and server stuff, you&amp;rsquo;ll have to check out what I get up to in projects!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Building things:&lt;/strong&gt; small tools, scripts and side projects, which will end
up on the projects page. anything that grabs my interest or just to save some time!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Digital forensics + analysis&lt;/strong&gt; I love trying to figure out how things work, how other people did things, so I naturally love a good bit of forensics + analysis for a ctf, reverse engingeering obscure things and even some malware now and again!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Minecraft Scanner</title><link>https://plotem.dev/projects/minecraft-scanner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://plotem.dev/projects/minecraft-scanner/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="building-a-minecraft-server-scanner"&gt;Building a Minecraft Server Scanner&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This project started with a pretty simple question:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did some random person find my Minecraft server?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-incident"&gt;The Incident&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This summer, I was playing Minecraft (java edition) with some friends on a server I was hosting from my desktop PC. Since I couldn&amp;rsquo;t port-forward on my network, I was using &lt;a href="https://playit.gg/"&gt;playit.gg&lt;/a&gt; to create a tunnel to the server. (My internet connection was provided through a 4G LTE modem, which made port forwarding impossible.)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>