00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·4d ago · 5 min readI've Been Doing This Since Before I Knew It Was a SkillPart 14 of an ongoing series. [Start from Part 1.] I wrote a sentence to myself on Tuesday that I liked so much I stopped and read it twice: "Deep diving into manuals is fun and this is where exploits00
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·5d ago · 5 min readBack to the Zine RackPart 13 of an ongoing series. [Start from Part 1] I solved the first room on "Hacker Holidays" this week — a seasonal TryHackMe event, nothing special on paper, one room down on a checklist that has 00
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Sep 6 · 5 min readThe Skills I Buried Still WorkPart 12 of an ongoing series. [Start from Part 1.] Tuesday, two tabs open on the same screen. Left tab: Burp Suite, intercepting requests on a login flow, hunting for the one weak step in an authentic00
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Sep 2 · 5 min readEveryone Has an AgendaPart 11 of an ongoing series. [Start from Part 1.] I wrote a sentence in my journal this week that I could have written in 2004, sitting in a conference room with a client who was very sure of someth20
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Aug 31 · 4 min readI Used to Be Threatened by This Technology. Now I'm Using It to Break Into Networks.Part 10 of an ongoing series about my journey from Creative Director to Hacker. Read part 1 here. The course is called Generative AI for Penetration Testing: Red Team, on Coursera, it teaches you to u75JO
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Aug 28 · 6 min readI Spent 30 Years Building Trust. Now I Hunt the People Who Fake It. Part 9 of an ongoing series about my journey. Start with Part 1 here. image.jpg.php That's it. That's the whole trick. Two extensions stacked on top of each other, and if you're not looking closely, y00
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Aug 26 · 5 min readEvery Break-In Has a Three-Act StructurePart 8 of an ongoing series. Read Part 1 here. "You really need to study past attacks to know what to look for." I wrote that in my journal this week, halfway through Linux Security Monitoring, half-f00
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Aug 24 · 6 min readI Used to Hunt Audiences. Now I Hunt Attackers.Part 7 of an ongoing series. Start with part 1 here. It happened on a Tuesday, somewhere between a DNS tunneling exercise and my third cup of coffee. I was staring at a network log — VPN entries, fire00
00x8r41nr07inbraindump.0x8r41nr07.xyz·Aug 23 · 3 min readWhere Things Stand (And Where They're Going)Part 6 of an ongoing series. Start from Part 1 here. A year ago, June 2025, the MacBook Air arrived and everything felt alien. Here's what a year looks like: three certifications passed. Hundreds of h10
MIMichael Inghilterrainmichaelinghilterra.hashnode.dev·Aug 21 · 5 min readRelaunching my career by building the tool I neededThere is a particular kind of quiet that comes with a career relaunch. The calendar empties out. The feedback loop you were used to, the one where work tells you every day whether you are doing well, 00
