Priya Sharma
Infrastructure and security engineer. Covers cloud, DevOps, and cybersecurity with a no-nonsense approach.
10 Articles
Your Fitness App Is a Surveillance Tool
A French newspaper recently tracked the real-time location of France's only aircraft carrier — the Charles de Gaulle, one of the most strategically sensitive...
eBPF Spinlocks and the Art of Kernel Debugging
A spinlock bug in eBPF doesn't announce itself with a stack trace or an error message. It announces itself with a machine that stops responding. No logs, no...
The Evolution of sudo: Unix su to Modern Privileges
Here's a fact that surprises most people: when you type your password into sudo, you don't see any feedback at all. No asterisks, no dots, nothing. The cursor...
Quantum Cryptography: What Developers Actually Need to Know
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard won the Turing Award for their foundational work on quantum information science — specifically, for the BB84 quantum key...
What the Xbox Hack Teaches About Hardware Security Models
Microsoft designed the Xbox One's security architecture to be impenetrable. A hardware root of trust. A custom hypervisor. Encrypted storage with per-console...
The Blind Spots in Cloud Authentication Logging
A security team at TrustedSec recently disclosed their third and fourth methods for bypassing Azure sign-in logging. That's four independent techniques for...
DNS Configuration Is Still Breaking Production
Apple's latest macOS release broke custom DNS settings for thousands of developers. Specifically, it started intercepting queries for the .internal TLD — which...
Defensive Engineering: Systems That Resist Catastrophe
A junior engineer at a mid-sized fintech company ran a database migration script on a Friday afternoon. The script was supposed to clean up orphaned records in...
Sub-Millisecond VM Sandboxes via Copy-on-Write
Starting a Docker container takes about 500 milliseconds. A Firecracker microVM takes about 125 milliseconds. A V8 isolate takes about 5 milliseconds. But a...
FreeBSD: The Underappreciated Server OS
When Netflix serves you a movie, the video data is likely coming from a FreeBSD server. When you send a WhatsApp message, it's routed through infrastructure...