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In this Hack The Box challenge, I had to act as a backup pass prediction system for a ground station. By parsing Two-Line Element (TLE) sets and calculating satellite passes above 30 degrees of elevation using Python's `skyfield` library, I wrote an automated solver to determine upcoming visibility windows, overcome strict timing checks, and retrieve the flag.

Cadence in the Cord is a Sigrok/UART challenge where the apparent serial message only serves as a guide to a second, covert channel encoded in the inter-frame timing—short gaps as 0, long gaps as 1.

The Emptiness Machine is a modern FSOP-based pwn challenge from Hack The Box’s Cyber Apocalypse 2026 that demonstrates how glibc file stream structures in a fully mitigated Linux x86_64 environment can still be abused for powerful exploitation. By combining a controlled leak from stdout to defeat ASLR with a carefully aligned House of Apple 2 attack on stderr, the solver script reliably turns program teardown (_IO_flush_all()) into a remote shell and captures the flag.