root@sirzak.rocks:~$ whoami
Notes from
the box.
Hack The Box writeups, homelab builds, and whatever I broke learning how it works.
16machines
owned
owned
3writeups
3lab
builds
builds
Retired machines
Writeups
machine
difficulty
techniques
owned
What I built
Homelab
no photo yet
Three-node Proxmox cluster
Refurbished mini PCs, one switch, and the quorum mistake that cost me an evening.
no photo yet
A hand-soldered ESP32 Wi-Fi tool
Building an ESP32 + TFT/SD handheld from parts, flashing ESP Marauder, and using it for Wi-Fi security testing in the lab.
no photo yet
Building an Active Directory attack range
A deliberately broken two-domain forest on Proxmox for practising Kerberos attacks without touching anything real.
Who's writing
About
IT infrastructure by day. Breaking things on purpose at night.
Everything in the writeups section is a retired machine — the reasoning and the dead ends, not just the commands that worked.