I Turned an Old PC Into a Blue Team Homelab
Building a small SOC with Proxmox, Wazuh, Suricata, Zeek, and a managed-switch mirror—and debugging the traffic path when normal unicast never reached the sensor.
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I build things, break things, and document both.
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Building Kali NetHunter for the POCO M4 5G Without Guessing
What it took to bring NetHunter to Xiaomi's MediaTek-based POCO M4 5G—from an unsafe first kernel build to working HID and external Wi-Fi.
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- POCO M4 5G
- Kernel
- Linux 4.19.191
- Status
- Validated v0.1.0 reference build
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View allDumping a Bricked CP Plus E31A Camera and Pulling Its Firmware Apart
A practical walkthrough of dumping my own bricked CP Plus E31A IP camera with a CH341A, extracting its SquashFS and JFFS2 partitions, and mapping the boot flow, Tuya storage, and sensitive config areas.
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- CP Plus E31A
- Flash
- Winbond 8 MB SPI NOR
- Programmer
- CH341A with SOIC clip
From the workbench
Equipment with documented project use.
01CH341A USB Programmer
A USB programmer for 24/25-series EEPROM and SPI flash chips, with SOIC8/SOP8 clip support for reading, writing, erasing and verification.
View record →02Raspberry Pi 5 8GBA 2.4 GHz quad-core Arm single-board computer with 8GB RAM, dual 4K display output, wireless networking, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and GPIO expansion.
View record →03Raspberry Pi Zero WHA compact 1 GHz Linux single-board computer with 512MB RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, camera connectivity and a pre-soldered HAT-compatible GPIO header.
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