Build & ship
Vanilla JavaScript, Node/Express, Socket.io, front-end. Python and bash for automation, scraping, and enrichment pipelines. Linux server administration.
SIGNAL ACQUIRED · GRID WITHHELD
Security writing with the lab work to back it up.
I'm Murphy: developer, cybersecurity student, and technical writer. I write hands-on tutorials and deep dives on Node.js security, OSINT tooling, privacy engineering, and RF, and every article is tested on my own hardware before it ships.
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FIELD NOTES / 88.0–108.0
Writing
Tutorials and teardowns with working code. Reproducible on your machine.
- TX·01 Hardening a Node/Express API: a working checklist, not a listicle
- TX·02 Building an IP-intelligence enrichment pipeline in Python
- TX·03 What a Flipper Zero actually teaches you about defending your own devices
- TX·04 WebSocket security in Node: CORS was never protecting you
- TX·05 Hardening a Linux VPS: what stops the bots and what's just theater
- TX·06 Building a one-person SOC: twelve detections, not twelve thousand
- TX·07 Container security: Docker walks straight past your firewall
- TX·08 Hardening the edge: TLS was the easy part
- TX·09 Account security: boring sessions beat clever tokens
- TX·10 Surviving the bad day: attackers delete your backups first
- TX·11 Incident response for one: you can't clean a rooted box
- TX·12 Supply chain security: every hash matched, the malware installed anyway
LICENSE & REGISTRATION
Credentials
The paper trail. Statuses are live and this ladder gets climbed in order.
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IN PROGRESS
B.S. Computer Science, Cybersecurity specialization
University of Phoenix · strong GPA · on track
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IN PROGRESS
ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
First rung of the cert ladder
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NEXT UP
CompTIA Security+
Target: 2026
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QUEUED
CompTIA CySA+
Analyst track, following Security+
Honors & recognition
- ACADEMIC President's Letter recipient for outstanding GPA
BENCH INVENTORY
The lab behind the words
Everything I publish is run on real hardware first. No vibes-based tutorials.
Security focus
Cybersecurity degree in progress. OSINT methodology, privacy & anonymity tooling (Tor, GPG, Whonix), counter-surveillance concepts, RF/wireless with Flipper Zero, all written from the defensive side.
Heavy iron
A dedicated GPU workstation running local AI pipelines for image, video, TTS, and audio generation, producing original diagrams and media for every article. No stock art.
SIDE CHANNEL
Digital Descent
A browser-based hacking simulation I'm building solo: real terminal UI (xterm.js), Node/Socket.io backend, and systems inspired by actual tradecraft rather than movie hacking. In development.
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Commission an article
Editors and dev-tools teams: I take asynchronous commissions for tutorials, security deep dives, and documentation. Clear outlines, working code, delivered on schedule.
[email protected]or find me on GitHub