Security researcher by day, phreak.fm contributor by night. Breaks things to understand how they work, writes about it so you can too.
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Masters of Deception and Legion of Doom were the two most notorious hacker groups of the late 1980s. Their rivalry escalated from BBS trash talk to full-scale digital warfare, and it drew the attention of the FBI.
nullbyte :: November 11, 2026 :: 2 min read
At 15 years old, Jonathan James broke into NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Department of Defense. He became the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States.
nullbyte :: October 21, 2026 :: 2 min read
German hacker Karl Koch, operating under the handle Hagbard Celine from the Illuminatus! trilogy, sold stolen data to the KGB. His story ended in tragedy, fueled by paranoia, drugs, and Cold War espionage.
nullbyte :: September 30, 2026 :: 2 min read
A 75-cent accounting discrepancy at Lawrence Berkeley Lab led astronomer Clifford Stoll on a months-long hunt for a KGB-sponsored hacker infiltrating U.S. military networks. The resulting book became a classic.
nullbyte :: September 9, 2026 :: 2 min read
A technical walkthrough of what zero-day vulnerabilities actually are, how they get discovered, weaponized, and eventually patched. The lifecycle of the most dangerous bugs in software.
nullbyte :: March 28, 2026 :: 8 min read