Root//Drifter
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Security knowledge is a right, not a product. rootdrifter is building in public to prove it.
About
rootdrifter is the working handle of a security professional building toward entry-level roles in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany.
The approach is to build and to break with the same discipline, and to document both to a standard a reviewer can audit. That has produced a hardened Linux workstation and a compartmentalised mobile platform, a grey-box penetration test mapped to recognised benchmarks, and dissertation-level research into whether language models can reason causally about social engineering rather than just pattern-match it. Current focus: CompTIA Security+, active CTF practice, and a Wazuh SIEM home lab for hands-on detection engineering.
Academic background: a First Class BSc in Computer Networks & Cyber Security. This site stays pseudonymous by design — a named CV with full academic and contact detail is available on request.
Portfolio
Hardened Fedora workstation — LUKS2 full-disk encryption unlocked by a FIDO2 hardware key, remote pre-boot SSH unlock, and all DNS filtered before it leaves the host.
3-keyslot LUKS2 · Nitrokey 3A NFC · WireGuard egress spectre · offensiveGrey-box pentest of an Apache 2.4.58 host from a CIS-L1 PostgreSQL server — PTES, findings mapped to CWE / CIS / ISO 27002, SHA-256 evidence chain.
7 findings · primary CWE-548 · SHA-256 chain mirage · researchCausal LLM evaluation over an 88,647-email phishing corpus — can frontier models reason about social engineering, or only pattern-match it?
88,647 emails · ICC 0.98 · GPT-4 94.2% DAGFull portfolio → all seven projects
Utilities
DRIFTDECK is the suite side of the site — local-first pipelines with public, read-only status surfaces. Every panel is a staged projection: verdicts, counts, and states only.
Latest writing
October: the application composer, a local tool that tracks and guides each job application, is in build for its first release.
Read →October: I am testing whether a GrapheneOS phone sells better with an educational setup walkthrough, after reading the rules first.
Read →October: every task now has a short launch code, typed as a word and a number, that is dry by default.
Read →More transmissions incoming · Subscribe for early access
Active work
Contact
[email protected] · github.com/rootdrifter
Open to security roles in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany. CV available on request.