BEN
MICKENS
Cybersecurity Educator, Human Risk Strategist
Most security failures start with people, not code. I build the training, labs, and tools that make the human layer defensible.
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Password Validator
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Weak passwords fail quietly until a breach makes them loud. This tool scores any password against breach databases, crack-time estimates, and security policy rules, in a CLI or a Streamlit web UI. Users see exactly why a password fails and what fixing it buys them.
Human Risk & Awareness
RootVox
DONE[02]
Cloud dictation ships your voice to someone else's servers. RootVox is push-to-talk AI dictation for macOS built on whisper.cpp and Ollama: hold a key, speak, and cleaned-up text lands at your cursor. Fully local, zero cloud, zero telemetry.
Foundations
PsyonVox
DONE[03]
Cloud text-to-speech ships your study files to someone else's servers and bills you for the privilege. PsyonVox loads a PDF, Word doc, PowerPoint, EPUB, or Markdown file and reads it aloud with the Kokoro-82M voice model running entirely in your browser: 27 voices, follow-along highlighting, and MP3 export, with your files never leaving the device. A companion Python script batch-converts whole folders to audio locally.
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CertRx
IN PROGRESS[04]
Cert practice apps grade you and move on; the miss is the moment worth teaching, and it gets skipped. CertRx captures your reasoning and uses AI to diagnose the specific misconception before revealing the answer. 11 live cert banks, 2,550 original questions, free with no account and no tracking.
Learning Design
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2025-07-18Prompt Engineering and AI Safety: Reflections on the CSA Learning Path2025-06-21BSides SATX 20252025-06-14DoD Cyber Sentinel Challenge2025-05-31Building Security into AI: Lessons from the Paranoia Trenches2025-05-26What I Learned Earning My Python Programming Certificate
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