JWT Failure Modes Defenders Still See
Lab JWT verifier in Go: decoded header/payload dumps, alg=none rejected, wrong aud rejected, HS256 with a lab secret — no forged production tokens.
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Format String Lab: Leak, Crash, and the %s Patch
Toy printf(user) lab: gdb dump of stack words matching a %p leak (canary included conceptually), SIGSEGV from %s, ASan on a sprintf companion, patched printf("%s", user).
HTTP Request Smuggling: A Defender Mental Model
Lab walkthrough of HTTP/1.1 framing disagreement: raw frames, nginx vs Python http.server parse notes, sanitized logs, hop-boundary hardening.