Writing and stories from Griffin Adelmann, privacy broker.https://griffinadelmann.com/en-ushttps://griffinadelmann.com/writing/how-kidnappers-choose-their-targets/https://griffinadelmann.com/writing/how-kidnappers-choose-their-targets/A seven-phase look at how kidnappers choose targets, written from the kidnapper's side, and what a family can do to become hard to find. By Griffin Adelmann.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://griffinadelmann.com/stories/city-data-internship/https://griffinadelmann.com/stories/city-data-internship/A high school internship with a small city's planning effort. I was handed a week of manual data entry and wrote a Python script that did it in ten minutes.Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://griffinadelmann.com/stories/wordpress-class/https://griffinadelmann.com/stories/wordpress-class/In a high school cybersecurity class I broke into my instructor's WordPress site with permission, added 20,000 points to my team, left a backdoor, and hit zero.Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://griffinadelmann.com/stories/redacted-startup/https://griffinadelmann.com/stories/redacted-startup/Two months into freshman year I walked up to two founders at a campus event, ended up rebuilding their frontend, and watched the company pause operations.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://griffinadelmann.com/stories/windows-parental-controls/https://griffinadelmann.com/stories/windows-parental-controls/At fourteen I got around Windows parental controls, made a YouTube video, reported the bug to Microsoft and got an hour-long call back. It was fixed later.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://griffinadelmann.com/stories/lego-robotics-to-privacy/https://griffinadelmann.com/stories/lego-robotics-to-privacy/How a third-grade Lego club, an origami business that made $14, a Raspberry Pi car with a phone duct-taped to it, and a skunk classifier led to privacy work.Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT