Alok Menghrajani's Blog
Security engineer, co-author of HackLang, maker of CTFs.

This is the personal blog of Alok Menghrajani, a security engineer and developer known for work at Square/Block, Facebook/Meta, and co-authoring HackLang. The blog covers a wide range of technical topics including security, cryptography, generative art, hardware, programming puzzles, and CTF competitions. Posts span from 1997 to the present, reflecting decades of hands-on engineering exploration.
The author publishes chronological blog posts tagged by topic, covering everything from security research to creative coding projects.
developers, security engineers, and technically curious readers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Launched
- Nov 2002
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