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+========= PROGRAM CATALOG =========+ | 50 programs · 5 types · 4 tiers | +===================================+
Lives below ring zero and pays no rent.
Pushes data past the fence and into the next process's lap.
Spills memory until the kernel forgets where it lives.
Two threads, one resource, zero sportsmanship.
Hands a process a pointer to nothing and watches it follow.
Overwrites the return address with somewhere more interesting.
A canary in the frame. It sings before it dies.
Shuffles every address until the exploit forgets where to land.
Signed modules only. The kernel is not taking guests.
A whitelist for what a process is allowed to want.
Announces routes you do not own to autonomous systems that believe you.
Half-open handshakes until the table can't hold them.
Convinces the network you are the gateway.
Resolves their requests to your basement.
Tears headers open and reads what was meant for someone else.
Open every connection. Close none. Watch the queue weep.
Intrusion Countermeasures, Electrified. Old name. Still works.
Reads every header. Trusts none of them.
The payload has nowhere to hide; the inspector reads it all.
Knocks required. The scanner sees only closed doors.
Manufactures a private key from a public mistake.
Sits politely between two parties. Listens. Edits.
Two inputs, one digest, no integrity.
A precomputed table walks into a password file.
The error message tells you which byte you got wrong.
The clock tells you everything the cipher refuses to.
Post-quantum. The math is hard now and harder later.
Hardware-backed. The keys never leave the silicon.
Genuine randomness, sourced from places you do not want to know.
A ciphersuite list with no weak entries and no patience.
A beacon dressed as a normal employee email.
A login page so familiar nobody reads the URL.
Wears another operator's credentials like a borrowed jacket.
You are the new vendor. They have your invoice.
Free, irresistible, and signed by nobody.
The exploit lives between the chair and the screen.
Every untrusted process plays in its own padded room.
Reads the email twice and the sender's history once.
A simulated environment for inputs that haven't earned trust.
Unsigned binaries do not run here. No exceptions, no excuses.
Hits one DRAM row hard enough to flip the next.
A single coil unmakes a season of patches.
Clamps onto the bus and asks polite questions in raw voltage.
Pulls firmware out the debug port like a confession.
Decapsulate the die. Photograph the secrets.
Replaces the BIOS with one that loves you.
Boot only what was measured. Refuse the rest.
Tamper-evident enclosure. Open it and the keys self-erase.
The firmware is signed, sealed, and not interested in updates.
Smooths the rail until the side-channel falls silent.
POW = damage / block · ATK·ACC = % clean hit (else ×0.5) · ATK·CRT = % crit ×1.5 ·
DEF·ACC = % HOLD (else BREAK ×0.5) · DEF·CRT = % COUNTER ×1.5
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