Peeling 1000 nested archive layers by magic byte, using the fact that 7-zip leaves its filename table readable to recover each layer password
Carving an SD-card image with debugfs, then pulling a QEMU machine model, an XOR-encoded cloud endpoint, and a hidden debug-exec opcode out of the same IoT firmware
Winning a double-fetch race in a Windows capture driver, where the bump allocator alignment that blocks a single-threaded overflow becomes the thing that guarantees the corruption lands