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Bahmani
Independent creator exploring the intersection of security, infrastructure, and digital craft. Building at Internet Labs.
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Recent writings on security, infrastructure, and the open web
VPS Security Baseline: 10-Point Checklist Before You Go Live
A practical pre-flight checklist for hardening a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VPS before exposing any service to the internet.
The Best Code Is the Code You Never Wrote
Minimalism is a decision procedure, not a style. Why the lazy senior dev ships the smallest working diff, reuses the std…
Tracing Pirated Streams Using Forensic Watermarking
Broadcasters hide a per-subscriber code in live video, then recover it from pirate relays. A walk through the embed, det…
Fullstack Rust Beyond Electron: An Architectural Case Study of Dioxus
Shipping a 150MB Chromium shell for a basic desktop utility is an outdated architectural pattern. Here is how Dioxus use…
Sandboxing Agent Runtimes with NVIDIA OpenShell
A practical guide to securing AI agent runtimes using NVIDIA OpenShell, defining capability manifests, and enforcing sys…
Proving zkVM Circuit Soundness: Lessons from zkWasm and Coq
A USENIX study showed 90% of zero-knowledge circuit vulnerabilities break soundness. Here is how formal verification in …
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