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RivasSec

Infrastructure. Security. Insight.

Field notes on infrastructure security, cloud hardening, Kubernetes, IAM, and OSINT by RivasSec.

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The Teensy That Failed in Public: An EFI Brute Force, Hours Late

In 2013, Hackaday wrote that my MacBook EFI brute force was unsuccessful. Hours after the article shipped, it worked. Three rate-limiting defenses, each leaking information at a different observable seam: the same pattern that shows up daily in modern cloud security architectures. A reread of the project that survived me, plus the invariant that ports cleanly into 2026 work.


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Never Lose Connection: Multi-Phone Bluetooth Tethering for Pwnagotchi

bt-tether-multi is a Pwnagotchi plugin for intelligent multi-phone Bluetooth tethering with automatic WAN failover and silent-disconnect recovery in the field.


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