Royans Tharakan | This is a personal blog, been running this for over 20 years and it reflects my personal opinion only. As a disclaimer, I currently work for Google, and my personal opinions may at times have unintentional biases as well. I promise, I’m human.

Posts

Dec 28, 2025
Smarter Honeypots v2 - Using GenAI for High-Fidelity Contextual Deception
Dec 23, 2025
The Cryptographic Wall - Fast External Deterministic Verification of LLM Code Execution
Feb 3, 2025
Google Workspace Productivity hacks
Dec 7, 2024
Smarter Honeypots: Using GenAI to customize
May 28, 2024
DomainRisk: Measuring risk from 3rd party libraries
Mar 30, 2024
HSTS: Forcing HTTPS for your service
Mar 24, 2024
Explaining Zero-Trust to a 5 year old
Mar 24, 2024
Anyone can get hacked
Feb 25, 2024
Google Workspace Release Channels
Feb 25, 2024
The misconceptions around VPN
Oct 3, 2022
Hacking Google: Protecting users
Aug 28, 1998
Voip Dream Or Reality