> whoami

Lawyer

Infosec

CTF Player

Last update:

Cheating Permitted? German Federal Court of Justice Rules on 'Action Replay II'

Darkmailr: Generate realistic, context-aware phishing emails – air-gapped

Cleartext Protocols 101: How to Connect Anonymously to FTP, Telnet, and rsync

> cat readme.txt

Welcome. I'm a lawyer turned infosec practitioner with a passion for clarity, structure, and threat surface reduction.

My projects are immersive, sandboxed labs — each one a hands-on exploration of real-world systems and security concepts.
CTFs serve as my live-fire exercises — targeted challenges that expose gaps, build intuition, and push technical depth across multiple domains.
With the 100s Series, I offer a set of tactical primers, breaking down essential tools and techniques for peers in the field.
My publications explore the intersection where law meets code, focusing on how regulation adapts to an evolving digital threat landscape.

tail -f learning.log

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ls /projects

>> Key takeaways from my projects

darkmailr — Generate realistic, context-aware phishing emails – air-gapped (intro, repo, contributing)
How I Flooded Myself — hping3 Against Apache
From Panic to Action — How to Recover from a GCP Data Breach
Finding Flaws 101 — Scanning Metasploitable2 with Nessus Pro

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ls /ctfs

TryHackMe, Industrial Intrusion (2025): Team "GottaCatchemall", Rank 205 of 5992 (Top 3.4%)

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ls /100s_series

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ls /publications

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tree /bio

bio
├── experience
│   ├── Since 2015 Practicing lawyer
│   ├── 2015 Bar admission (Germany)
│   ├── 2012 Res. Asst., German Univ. of Admin. Sciences, Speyer
│   ├── 2007 Legal Asst., Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt
│   └── 1999/2000 Tactical Radio Op (equiv. MOS 25C), 1st Trans Bn 370 (Bundeswehr)
├── education
│   ├── 2017 PG Dip. Law, Univ. of London (QMUL/UCL)
│   ├── 2014 2nd Legal State Exam, Palatinate HRC Zweibrücken
│   └── 2011 1st Legal State Exam, JGU Mainz
├── certs
│   ├── Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate
│   ├── IBM Cybersecurity Analyst
|   ├── ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity
│   └── Microsoft IT Support Specialist
└── thm
    ├── Jr Penetration Tester
    ├── Web Fundamentals
    ├── Cyber Security 101
    └── Pre Security

> cat contact.txt

>>january1073@proton.me

PGP key: 0xDEADBEEF (Fingerprint: 56F2 FDCC 2EF4 D52A 3F59 7815 AE34 888E 8EDC 586C)

>> Or another channel of your choice: biolinks