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Technical · 9 min

Ten Rounds of Breaking My Own App: The Tools, and the Lessons

The bespoke tooling that made a ten-round self-pentest possible, the attacks that failed, the full round-by-round scoreboard, and the lessons that outlive the app. Part 4 of a four-part series.

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Technical · 11 min

The Flagship Encryption Feature That Never Actually Turned On

The eighth round of a self-pentest found MoodHaven's flagship 'encrypted at rest' feature had never engaged on any build — then a custom attack tool and a fix-the-fixes round closed the campaign. Part 3 of a four-part series.

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Technical · 9 min

I Pentested My Own Ask Bot

I put the 'Ask Me' bot on this site through a real security pass — prompt injection, jailbreaks, input fuzzing, and an automated LLM scanner from a Kali box. Here's what held, what surprised me, and the one latent bug I found.

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Technical · 11 min

The Bugs I Found Attacking My Own Journaling App — and the Bugs My Fixes Created

The confirmed vulnerabilities from a ten-round self-pentest of MoodHaven Journal: a readable database, silently lost edits, keys leaking over the LAN — and the critical bugs my own fixes introduced. Part 2 of a four-part series.

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Technical · 8 min

How I Tried to Break My Own Encrypted Journaling App — Ten Times

Why I ran a ten-round penetration test against my own privacy-first journaling app — the attack lab, the AI-orchestrated workflow, and the rules of engagement. Part 1 of a four-part series.

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Technical · 13 min

So We Rooted the Phone and Went Deeper

The unrooted phone told us our encryption held. Root let us check whether we were telling ourselves the truth. We weren't, entirely — and that was the point.

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Technical · 10 min

I Tried to Break Into My Own Journaling App on an Unrooted Pixel 9

A weekend attacking my own encrypted journaling app. The only foothold I got was my own debug build, my standard MITM playbook failed completely, and figuring out why taught me the most.

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