Hi, I’m Conor! (username is plotem)

I’m a second year computer science student interested in security, CTFs and building random things! This site is where I’ll put my writeups, projects and notes that I’ve been accumulating for a while that haven’t been published, and anything else I get up to in the future!

Want to know more about me? Head over to the about page!

Minecraft Scanner

Building a Minecraft Server Scanner This project started with a pretty simple question: How did some random person find my Minecraft server? The Incident This summer, I was playing Minecraft (java edition) with some friends on a server I was hosting from my desktop PC. Since I couldn’t port-forward on my network, I was using playit.gg to create a tunnel to the server. (My internet connection was provided through a 4G LTE modem, which made port forwarding impossible.) ...

August 19, 2026 · 13 min