Infrastructure Patterns and Recon: How Systems Betray Themselves
A technical method for turning DNS, certificate logs, code, and client-side clues into testable infrastructure hypotheses without confusing correlation with ownership.
NOTES BY MANAS / FROM MUMBAI
My writing.
My degree is in Electronics Engineering, and my day job is in ops. These are the questions I keep coming back to: radio links, web security, infrastructure, and the occasional economic model.
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