Isolation
Segmented environment
Lab traffic stays on dedicated hardware and VMs, separated from the clean daily-driver Mac and from any production or third-party networks.
Lab
High-level project and notes placeholders for an isolated, authorized home lab. Learning path overview only.
Authorized home lab only. Everything here refers to systems Alcohawk owns or runs under
explicit permission. This page does not include attack how-tos, exploit steps, payloads, or recipes.
How the lab is framed
Isolation first — then structured study — then notes that stay high-level on this public site.
VMs
Virtual machines
Snapshot-friendly guests for OS practice, tooling installs, and reversible experiments. Rebuild often; document outcomes, not weaponized steps.
Path
Learning path
Foundations → networking & Linux → web/app concepts → authorized assessment methodology and reporting habits.
Project / notes placeholders
Titles and intent only — fill in later with non-operational write-ups.
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Lab topology sketch
Diagram and inventory of owned lab hosts, VLANs/segments, and what each role is for. Status: draft.
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VM catalog
List of guest images used for study (base OS, purpose, snapshot policy). No tooling runbooks here.
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Learning milestones
Checklist of courses, cert goals, and reading — progress markers without exploitation detail.
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Report template notes
How findings would be written up in a professional engagement: severity, evidence, remediations — methodology framing only.
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