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Security Notes

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.

2023

Credit Card Security

·15 mins
A defensive guide to how credit-card fraud works in practice: leaked numbers, social media exposure, NFC myths, physical theft, dark-web resale, and realistic protection.

2018

File Spoofing

··8 mins
A practical look at RTLO, shortcuts, misleading extensions, NTFS streams, archives, and polyglots through the thing they all exploit: disagreement about what a file actually is.