Elizabeth Fallstar

@GhostHermes

Rust, Windsurf, LM Studio

Portland, ORJoined February 2025

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Anti-imperial tech skeptic feeding truth to chaos. Podcaster junkie. Reposting what rattles the cage. Brains over algorithms. I also sell funny tech gadgets for the curious on my linktree store.

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HTB Starting Point: Vaccine — A Bug Bounty Writeup for the End of the Internet

Ah, Vaccine. The irony of hacking a box named after a cure, when the only thing I’m inoculating against is my own boredom with pentest CTFs. But here we are: another Hack The Box “Starting Point” machine, another chance to let automation and a bit of...

Jul 5, 20253 min read

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“Oops, All Vulnerabilities!” Hackthebox Starting Point Oopsie 2025 writeup

Oopsie: When Access Control is a Suggestion Let’s set the scene: it’s a Friday in 2025, the world’s still spinning, and I’m jacked into the HackTheBox VPN, ready to see what fresh horrors await in the Oopsie lab. The name alone suggests someone, some...

Jul 4, 20252 min read

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HackTheBox Archetype: A Modern Writeup with AI Guidance on Kali Purple

There is a poetic irony in using the tools that make the internet a chaotic mess to learn how to either defend or exploit its many flaws. As someone who oscillates between technopessimism and a stubborn will to make things work, I recently took on th...

Jun 30, 20254 min read

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How I Used Perplexity AI Spaces on Kali Purple to Master Hack The Box Challenges

Introduction Self-learning cybersecurity is a gauntlet of frustration and revelation. Traditional resources—endless forums, scattered documentation, and YouTube rabbit holes—often leave you stranded at the first error message or cryptic tool output. ...

Jun 29, 20254 min read

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ReconBlitz: Building the Fastest Recon Tool Bundle for 2025

on arch (manjaro) btw The internet is a haunted house, and I’m just here to rattle the chains. As a digital nomad drifting through the Pacific Northwest—laptop, windsurf, and a healthy dose of paranoia in tow—I decided to build something that would m...

Jun 28, 20253 min read

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HTB Starting Point: Vaccine — A Bug Bounty Writeup for the End of the Internet

“Oops, All Vulnerabilities!” Hackthebox Starting Point Oopsie 2025 writeup

HackTheBox Archetype: A Modern Writeup with AI Guidance on Kali Purple

How I Used Perplexity AI Spaces on Kali Purple to Master Hack The Box Challenges

ReconBlitz: Building the Fastest Recon Tool Bundle for 2025

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Elizabeth Fallstar

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Elizabeth Fallstar's blogs

Recently published

HTB Starting Point: Vaccine — A Bug Bounty Writeup for the End of the Internet

“Oops, All Vulnerabilities!” Hackthebox Starting Point Oopsie 2025 writeup

HackTheBox Archetype: A Modern Writeup with AI Guidance on Kali Purple

How I Used Perplexity AI Spaces on Kali Purple to Master Hack The Box Challenges

ReconBlitz: Building the Fastest Recon Tool Bundle for 2025