Travel Day!
I’ve never been a massive fan of flying, but it’s funny how surviving an 18-hour flight to Singapore makes a 4-hour cross-country flight seem like no big deal 🙂
Cookies for Capture: Using ArchiveBox’s –cookie Option for Authenticated Web Content in OSINT
Open source intelligence (OSINT) often requires digging into corners of the web that aren’t publicly visible. Enter ArchiveBox, a self-hosted web archiving tool that lets you save web pages locally in various formats (HTML, PDF, WARC, etc.) (Key Features — ArchiveBox 0.8.6rc3 documentation) (Key Features — ArchiveBox 0.8.6rc3 documentation). ArchiveBox is like your personal Wayback […]
Inside the Replica Watch Ecosystem: A Guide to a Thriving Underground Subculture
I was recently discussing the replica watch ecosystem with a friend and found it a fascinating topic worthy of an AI-assisted irrelevent weekend blog post! Introduction Think fake Rolexes are just shady street curios? Think again. There is a semi-underground but thriving subculture devoted to high-quality replica watches. Online communities hundreds of thousands strong obsess […]
A Little-Known Travel Tip: Qatar Airways’ Stopover Program
All right, once again, I know this isn’t a travel blog, but it’s a irelevant weekend blog post, and it’s my blog so I’m kind of allowed to do whatever I want. It’s kind of funny – I honestly (as a lot of my friends know) don’t really care for flying too much, yet I […]
I’m Speaking at GISEC Global Conference in Dubai Next Month!
I am super excited to announce that next month I will be speaking at the GISEC Global conference in Dubai! It is the largest security conference in the Middle East and Africa, and it will be the first time I’ve ever had a chance to visit Dubai, so I am excited on multiple fronts. I […]
From Text to Diagram: Using AI and Mermaid to Visualize Intelligence Data
One of the topics I’ve been working on a bit is using AI to make Mermaid chart diagrams for threat modeling and visualization. I asked OpenAi’s deep research to write me a blog post on the subject and here are the results! Introduction Intelligence professionals – from OSINT investigators to military and law enforcement analysts […]
Cursor Vulnerability: Understanding the Risk Without Overreacting
This morning, a friend sent me a link to a story about a vulnerability in Cursor. Anyone who reads my blog or has heard me speak so far in 2025 knows how big of a fan I am of Cursor, which I use to write all my Python code these days. When I read the […]
Deep Research’s Impressive Detective Work
I know I talk about Deep Research from OpenAI a lot, but every once in a while it still does something that absolutely amazes me. Right now, I currently have it running to analyze and look for an appropriate gift that I want to give a friend of mine. It’s still going—been running about 10 […]
Hunting for Exposed JSON Data on the Internet with Shodan
I asked OpenAI’s Deep Research to write me a blog post on using Shodan to find exposed JSON data. Here are the results! Cybersecurity professionals and OSINT enthusiasts know that sometimes the biggest security leaks aren’t SQL databases or open RDP ports – they’re plain old text files in JSON format sitting out in the […]
Discovering New Ways to Use OpenAI’s Deep Research
Ever since OpenAI started including Deep Research in with the normal $20/month paid plan (albeit with a limit of 10 uses), I’ve been crunching the numbers internally about whether it’s worth it to keep my upgraded $200/month plan that comes with 120 uses. That’s a lot of Deep Research queries, and the other day I […]
