Security Notes
·1 min
Deep dives into specific failure modes: how fraud actually operates, how files lie about what they are, and what the failures say about the systems that trusted them.
Cybersecurity & Systems
This is the technical side of the notebook: security work, CTF lessons, fraud patterns, tooling, and thoughts about systems that fail in interesting ways.
I care most about the part after the trick is found: what the failure says about the design, the assumptions, and the people who trusted it.
- AI & automation: thoughts about language models, safety layers, and where tooling is going.
- CTF: the archive from my competing years: results, writeups, and reusable techniques. I’ve mostly retired from playing (thanks, AI), but the record stays.
- Security notes: practical breakdowns of attacks, mistakes, and defensive lessons.
2026
AI & Automation
·1 min
AI is not a separate topic from security, productivity, or identity anymore. It changes how people learn, write, code, decide, and avoid deciding.
This section is for the parts that feel too important to leave as scattered shower thoughts.
CTF (Capture the Flag)
··8 mins
The record from my competing years: results, writeups, and techniques across steganography, reversing, web exploitation, forensics, crypto, OSINT, and terminal jails.