Writing

• Mobile Security: From Fundamentals to Advanced Runtime Protection

  4/7/2026

  A deep dive into how Android and iOS apps get attacked and defended at every layer -- platform architecture, reverse engineering, runtime instrumentation, and the detection arms race.

• DSA Reference: My Distilled Notes

  4/5/2026

  Cleaned up notes on linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, heaps, and Python tricks -- a quick reference I keep coming back to.

• Bypassing Certificate Pinning on iOS with Frida

  4/5/2026

  A practical walkthrough of how certificate pinning in iOS apps fails at runtime -- and how to intercept HTTPS traffic from apps that should be unpinnable.

• Breaking BLE Smart Locks: How Real Attacks Actually Work

  4/4/2026

  A practitioner's breakdown of how BLE smart locks fail in the real world -- replay attacks, GATT auth gaps, and secrets hiding in plain sight inside mobile apps.

• iOS Jailbreak Detection (and Why It's Hard to Get Right)

  4/3/2026

  Notes from poking at how iOS apps try to detect jailbroken devices, and how those checks tend to fall apart.

• Trying to Understand Groth16 (Without Drowning in Math)

  3/14/2026

  Loose notes from me trying to make sense of zero-knowledge proofs and the Groth16 proving system, written in plain language.