About
Hey, I'm Henrik Selje Bygnes
I work on the assumption that everything can be broken—and most things can be fixed once you understand the system deeply enough.
I’m Henrik, a 26-year-old from Norway working in cybersecurity. Outside work I spend a lot of time on CTF competitions and security research: breaking things, understanding why they break, and then building better solutions.
Experience & education
A CV-ish snapshot—the parts worth pinning down, without pretending to be a résumé.
IT Specialist · Boliden Odda
Mar 2025 – presentSecurity, IT operations, and automation at an industrial zinc plant.
- Monitor and respond to security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR
- Detect and patch vulnerabilities, with KQL scripting to streamline the work
- Own the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Map and harden system and endpoint security; security-test new applications
- Automate internal processes with ServiceNow flows, PowerShell, and Python
- Document networks, servers, and assets; work to GDPR, ISO, and NIS2
IT Engineer · Vestland County Council
Mar 2024 – Mar 2025IT operations and endpoint security for county public services.
- Ran IT operations and maintenance for a secondary school, dental clinic, and roads/infrastructure
- Owned endpoint security across the county
- Security-tested new applications for robustness and compliance
Bachelor in Digital Forensics · Noroff University College
2020 – 2023Digital forensics, incident response, OSINT, data recovery, file-system and device forensics, network security, and security law.
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What I use
The tools I actually run day to day. Privacy-leaning, mostly, and boring on purpose—I'd rather my setup get out of the way than give me something new to maintain.
- Browser LibreWolf
- System EndeavourOS
- Notes Obsidian
- Editor VS Code
- Email Proton Mail
- Storage Proton Drive
- VPN Proton VPN
- Passwords Proton Pass
Would also trust: Tuta Mail · Mullvad VPN · Standard Notes · Bitwarden
Why this website exists#
This site is mostly for me. More precisely, it is a hacker’s public notebook.
I write to think, untangle thoughts, clear mental noise, and notice what I actually believe. There is a strange moment when you write something down and realize you are not just describing an idea. You are describing yourself.
My mindset is hacking. Not just the computer-security version, but the broader version: everything can be broken, and most things can be fixed if you understand the system deeply enough.
That applies to software, habits, biology, psychology, productivity, learning, identity, and life itself. If something does not work, I assume there is a way around it: a better method, a different angle, or a deeper model. I am rarely satisfied with “that’s just how it is.”
There is no content strategy here. No SEO calendar, no audience funnel, and no niche I intend to milk until this starts feeling like a second job. I have obsessions instead. I follow one until I have something worth writing down, then I may disappear into a completely different subject.
That is why the site jumps between cybersecurity, hacking, health, self-experimentation, psychology, tools, books, and the occasional uncomfortable personal lesson.
Sometimes technical. Sometimes philosophical. Sometimes personal.
The goal is to keep this site as me as possible. No spam AI articles. No posts engineered to go viral. No pretending to be a publication with an editorial plan. Just a public notebook, a record of my thinking, and a way to stop hiding from my own conclusions.
That also means old posts are allowed to stay old. I would rather write a new article that argues with my previous self than quietly replace what I thought with what I think now. Watching the mistakes, overconfidence, corrections, and better questions accumulate is part of the point.
I’m flawed like everyone else. The difference is that I try to observe those flaws directly, study them, and design around them.