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Offensive Security

How things break: exploitation, red teaming, the attacker's craft.

Seedtended Jun 24, 2026

The ADHD-HTB playbook: hacking the brain that hacks the box

Ten friction-bypassing study methods for grinding HackTheBox with an ADHD brain, plus the two of them I turned into real tools: a Swipe-to-Pwn Anki deck and an htb-operator shell.

Project · Offensive Security · Psychology

Sprouttended Jun 24, 2026

You will never know enough, and that's the job

Imposter syndrome in security isn't a character flaw; it's an accurate readout of an unbounded field, misfiled as a personal deficiency. The fix is a traversal strategy, not more knowledge.

Psychology · Offensive Security

Seedtended Jun 23, 2026

The Diamond Lock: Writing Notes a Future Robot Can't Read

Quantum computers will slice through today's internet locks like a laser through glass. Inside the race to build math even a future super-machine can't crack: public-key crypto, Shor's algorithm, and the diamond lock.

Cryptography · Offensive Security

Growingtended May 30, 2026

CTF field notes: the web category

A running log of web challenges: patterns that repeat, traps I fell into, and the meta-skill CTFs are secretly teaching.

Experiment · CTF Field Notes · Offensive Security

Bloomingtended May 28, 2026

The attacker's mindset is systems thinking

Attackers don't break rules; they discover that the rules compose differently than the designers believed.

Systems Thinking · Offensive Security

Seedtended Apr 22, 2026

Kelly criterion for bug hunting?

A half-formed hunch: allocating research time across targets is a bankroll problem, and Kelly might be the right lens.

Quant Curiosity · Offensive Security

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