Dictator of Life
Most of us govern ourselves by referendum, asking our fear, our comfort, our mood for permission before we move. A meditation on trading the parliament of moods for a single, quieter ruler.
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Krishna
Agarwal
Offensive security researcher. I break into systems so they can't be broken into, build AI agents, and write about all of it. Founder of Principle Breach.
Find it before someone else does
A defense you haven't attacked is just an assumption. I probe systems from an adversary's point of view.
The flaws are already there whether or not anyone is looking, so it is better to find them under controlled conditions and fix them before they are used.
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor and Philosopher
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My work
Offensive security, done hands-on.
Through Principle Breach, I run penetration tests and red team engagements for teams that want to know how they'd actually be attacked. The rest of my time goes to vulnerability research and bug bounty work, which is where most of the writing starts.
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