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Diogo Mónica

diogomonica.com

General Partner at Haun Ventures. Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anchorage Digital. Chairman of the NEAR Foundation. Director at Erebor.

SecurityCrypto / fintechDevOps / SRE / infrastructureEssays / personal

’15’20’25
Posts
39 from 6 Jan 2011 to 28 Sep 2026
Posting
monthly (6 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 5

  1. AI Escapes: Super Intelligence or Super Incompetence?
  2. Unicorns as a media product
  3. How to get your GrokBot to receive emails instantly
  4. Jota
  5. Erebor

2025 1

  1. Finisterra

2024 3

  1. Bvnk
  2. Stablecoins: A Quiet Revolution
  3. Chaos Labs

2019 1

  1. A Pirate's take on Command vs. Leadership

2018 1

  1. A Pirate's take on Strategy vs. Tactics

2017 6

  1. Crypto Anchors: Exfiltration Resistant Infrastructure
  2. Bitcoin hard-forks and replay attacks
  3. The two metrics that matter for host security
  4. Why you shouldn't use ENV variables for secret data
  5. Why should *hard* be secure enough? Information and non-invertibility
  6. Hitless TLS Certificate Rotation in Go

2016 2

  1. Build once run where? Migrating my blog to hyper.sh
  2. Increasing Attacker Cost Using Immutable Infrastructure

2015 2

  1. Creating a CSP Policy from Scratch
  2. From F to A+: Getting Good Grades on Website Security Evaluations

2014 2

  1. Password Security: Why the horse battery staple is not correct
  2. MPTCP: The path to multipath

2013 3

  1. Skynet (beta): The rise of the Beam robot
  2. Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in SF
  3. Weird packet of the day

2012 3

  1. Raising the dead - Undeleting files in ext4
  2. Hush OS X Terminal, hush
  3. It's not just the salt, stupid

2011 10

  1. Exploit-suggester
  2. The dangers of pastebin-like websites
  3. Dead Simple HTTPd in Python
  4. Sniffing in Monitor Mode with Airport
  5. Facebook Sidejacking
  6. Poor man's SSH keylogger
  7. Packet Inter Arrival Time With Scapy
  8. Merging multiple .pcap files
  9. Change your MAC with py-MACtool
  10. Monitor VS Promiscuous