About

Hello, my name is Tavis Ormandy, I’m a vulnerability researcher with Google Project Zero. I’m originally from England, but I currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You’re probably interested in some of my vulnerability research, or perhaps some code I’ve written.

I sometimes tweet about what I’m working on.

Articles

July 2024

Troubleshooting a slow terminal startup issue.

December 2023

I wrote a brief introduction to the hiew hex editor.
I started using ledger to track my finances.

November 2023

What happens when a CPU goes wrong?

September 2023

An overview of hacking the Timex m851.

July 2023

I found an interesting CPU bug.

January 2023

George Lucas once sued someone over a spreadsheet.

November 2022

I’m looking for a new wrist watch.

August 2022

Putting debugging symbols back into stripped binaries.

July 2022

I solved a mystery in an old UNIX print ad.

May 2022

I rediscovered some lost UNIX software.

June 2021

I wrote down some thoughts about Password Managers.

February 2021

I wrote a display driver for an old DOS program.

December 2020

You can make popup ads in XTerm with Tektronix mode.
Linking a binary with two versions of the same library.

November 2020

I reviewed some spreadsheets that work in the terminal.

October 2020

Read about me trying out some old MS-DOS software, Lotus Agenda.

Contact

Feel free to email me at taviso@gmail.com.