Fayad K. HassanContact
A fractal flame generated from my disclosure record, one rule for each vendor in it.

I run the operation and write the software it runs on.

Fayad K. Hassan: operations and systems lead, security researcher credited by Google, Nokia and Tesla.

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Credited by Google, Nokia, Tesla, SpaceX, and 4 moreKeeper Security, Mattermost, Privy and UK Health and Safety Executive

The drawing is generated from my security disclosure record, one rule for each vendor that credited the work. See the record

Three parts of one job

In all of it, the work is finding where what a system reports and what it is actually doing stop being the same thing.

Operations and logistics Dispatch, drivers, claims and contracts for vehicle recovery and equipment rental, and before that a 14-truck interstate carrier. I carry the P&L. Systems and engineering The dispatch platform, CRM, e-signed contracts and John Deere telematics the business runs on, and the reporting behind them. Security and intelligence Web application research credited by eight vendors, including a high-severity finding for Google, and OSINT that has contributed to reporting in ZEIT Online.

Systems I have built

Systems an operation depends on the next morning.

The King Heavy Equipment website: the heavy-equipment rental hero and instant-quote flow Operations

Dispatch and Fleet Platform

The website and back office King Heavy Equipment runs on: instant-quote capture, customers, e-signed contracts, bookings and live John Deere telematics as one connected set of records.

 All work

Credited by the vendors themselves

Each finding went through the vendor’s own programme and was acknowledged publicly.

VendorChannelOutcome
Google Vulnerability Reward Program Hall of Fame
Nokia Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Hall of Fame
Tesla Bugcrowd Hall of Fame
SpaceX Bugcrowd Hall of Fame
Keeper Security Bugcrowd Hall of Fame
Mattermost Bugcrowd Hall of Fame
Privy HackerOne Resolved, paid
UK Health and Safety Executive HackerOne Credited
The full disclosure record, with links

On Sudanese television

Two interviews, on Sudania 24 and Sudan National TV, about student access and rights after Sudan’s revolution. Both in Arabic.

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Selected essays and field notes

Open source intelligence, conflict, the technology I build with, and how people behave around all three.

5 Nov 2026

Zero for Eight: What History Says About the Nuclear Scare Over Iran

The nuclear risk that does repeat is slower, and it starts with 440 kilograms of uranium nobody outside Iran has seen in more than a year.

 Politics18 min 26 Sep 2026

An OSINT Tool Should Show Its Working

Storytime 2.1 is a free, self-hosted OSINT platform. It reads public sources only, runs a local agent that has to cite every claim it makes, and seals what it collects so the evidence can be checked later.

 OSINT9 min 9 Aug 2025

A $10K OSINT Red-Team Against a Simulated Intelligence Network

A tabletop red-team against a fictional joint-intelligence network, run on open-source material and a small budget.

 OSINT8 min
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Fayad K. Hassan

Tell me what isn’t adding up

An operation that has outgrown its spreadsheets and phone calls, a system that says one thing while the business does another, or a security or OSINT question. I read every message myself.

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