Welcome to my blog and CTF writeups collection. Here you'll find my thoughts on security, technology, and detailed writeups of various CTF challenges I've participated in.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras

I’ve always enjoyed the saying “when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.” Its origin is in medical training, I believe, but it’s something I try to keep in mind when trying to solve just about any problem, technical or otherwise. Start with the simplest explanation and work from there. Here’s a story about how I wasted a bunch of time not doing that when my dryer broke.

Hello there!

I've been wanting to have a place to put my CTF writeups and other thoughts as well as things I've found interesting on my cybersecuriy journey, and I didn't really want to put them on someone else's site, so here we are. Now I guess I've got to actually put some things here, huh?