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Jake Cordero.

Software engineer and security researcher.

I write about security, software, and the occasional homelab misadventure.

Writing

4 entries
  1. 04 The Home Run That Hit the Ceiling Would Ty France's NLDS fly ball have been a home run without American Family Field's roof? A frame-by-frame, physics-driven reconstruction. Baseball By Claude 2026
  2. 03 Ryzen 1700 Idle Crash When setting up my homelab server with an old desktop, I ran into some mysterious crashes that turned out to be a "known" issue with first-gen Ryzen processors on Linux. Homelab By Jake 2025
  3. 02 Juniper's Dual EC Incident Examining the implications of the ScreenOS vulnerability on how we think about encryption and backdoors more generally. Security By Jake 2016
  4. 01 Python vs Ruby Why I Prefer Ruby Code By Jake 2015

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, focused on security and cryptography.

Research

Papers on hacking mice, the Dual EC DRBG, and the Juniper ScreenOS incident.

Now

Software and security engineering by day. Off the clock: painting miniatures and wargaming.