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Technical · 25 min
How I Tried to Break My Own Encrypted Journaling App — Ten Times
An authorized, ten-round penetration test of MoodHaven Journal — 65+ targets, 41 confirmed-and-fixed vulnerabilities, and the bespoke tooling it took to prove the encryption actually holds.
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So We Rooted the Phone and Went Deeper
The unrooted phone told us our encryption held. Root let us check whether we were telling ourselves the truth. We weren't, entirely — and that was the point.
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I Tried to Break Into My Own Journaling App on an Unrooted Pixel 9
A weekend attacking my own encrypted journaling app. The only foothold I got was my own debug build, my standard MITM playbook failed completely, and figuring out why taught me the most.
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