The Phantom Bad Blocks: How a 15-Year-Old Linux Bug Took Down 75 Security Cameras

A field report on diagnosing and repairing a RAID failure that wasn’t a hardware failure at all — and why ‘replace the disk’ would have made it far worse.

June 11, 2026 · 8 min

The 99 Access Points That Didn't Exist

An inventory report swore a site had 99 access points; the ceiling said twelve, and the database had been lying the whole time.

May 29, 2026 · 4 min