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Penetration Testing in Depth: Modern Methodologies, Offensive Operations & Enterprise Defense
2026-08-19
A comprehensive, technical deep dive into penetration testing and adversarial security assessments: covering PTES, NIST SP 800-115, OSINT reconnaissance, Active Directory attack paths, web & API vulnerabilities, cloud environments, and remediation engineering.
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20 minutes
Perspectives on Time, Vol. II - Spacetime, Relativity, and the Block Universe
2026-08-19
The second volume of the Perspectives on Time series. An investigation into relativistic physics: from the collapse of Newtonian absolute simultaneity and Minkowski spacetime geometry to gravitational time dilation, the Rietdijk-Putnam argument, and the four-dimensional Block Universe.
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10 minutes
Perspectives on Time, Vol. I - The Arrow, Entropy, and Fundamental Asymmetry
2026-08-18
The first installment of the Perspectives on Time series. An investigation into the nature of time: from classical Newtonian determinism and microscopic time-reversibility to Boltzmann's statistical entropy, Loschmidt's paradox, and the cosmological Past Hypothesis.
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9 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. V - Cloud-Native & Supply Chain Security
2026-07-02
The finale of the Security Architecture series. Securing the ephemeral: container and Kubernetes hardening, infrastructure-as-code scanning, the shared responsibility model, DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline security, SBOMs, SLSA, and defending the software supply chain.
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13 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. IV - Detection, Response & Threat Intelligence
2026-06-29
The fourth volume of the Security Architecture series. Assume breach: the blue team's operational reality. Telemetry pipelines, detection engineering with MITRE ATT&CK and the Pyramid of Pain, SIEM/SOAR, threat hunting, the incident response lifecycle, and digital forensics.
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13 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. III - Cryptography Engineering
2026-06-23
The third volume of the Security Architecture series. Opening the magic box: symmetric and asymmetric primitives, hashing and KDFs, the real TLS 1.3 handshake, forward secrecy, key management, the post-quantum transition, and the catalogue of ways engineers get crypto catastrophically wrong.
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13 minutes
Security in Depth, Vol. II - Identity, Access & the Zero Trust Frontier
2026-06-13
The second volume of the Security Architecture series. A deep dive into identity as the new perimeter: authentication factors, OAuth 2.1 and OIDC, session management, RBAC vs ABAC, PKI, secrets management, and building a real Zero Trust architecture.
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15 minutes
Troubleshooting Linux Networking Hurdles
2026-06-11
A developer's troubleshooting journal resolving OpenVPN DNS issues, handling public VPN anti-bot blocks, routing through custom server profiles on a budget, and setting up WireGuard split tunneling on Arch Linux.
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6 minutes
