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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.
ReadThe 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.
ReadThe 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.
ReadHow 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.
ReadSo 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.
ReadI 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.
ReadChanging a Password Is a One-Liner — Unless You Encrypt Everything
Crash-safe master-password rotation in a zero-knowledge journaling app: re-encrypting across two layers and two runtimes with a single atomic flip a kill -9 can't corrupt.
ReadSeven Months of Vibe Coding: How I Built a Privacy-First Journal App with an AI Pair Programmer
Building MoodHaven Journal from scratch as a non-developer — zero-knowledge encryption, a Wear OS companion, peer sync, and what it actually takes to learn while you ship.
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