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The Circuit Nobody Could Find: How Exact-Match Searching Nearly Cost Me the Audit

The Circuit Nobody Could Find: How Exact-Match Searching Nearly Cost Me the Audit

Jun 12, 202610 min read7

The HTTP/2 Bomb Sat in Plain Sight for a Decade. An AI Just Had to Read the Code.

The HTTP/2 Bomb Sat in Plain Sight for a Decade. An AI Just Had to Read the Code.

Jun 4, 20269 min read20

I Handed Claude Code the Keys. Turns Out I'm Not the Only One Using Them.

I Handed Claude Code the Keys. Turns Out I'm Not the Only One Using Them.

What happens when an attacker, not you, is the one holding the agent's keys.

Jun 16, 202611 min read12

The Copilot Meter Didn't Raise the Price. It Showed You the Bill.

The Copilot Meter Didn't Raise the Price. It Showed You the Bill.

Jun 3, 202611 min read

Designing AI for a Teen Discord Server Without Turning It Into a Surveillance Machine

Designing AI for a Teen Discord Server Without Turning It Into a Surveillance Machine

May 29, 202612 min read

WhatsApp Says No One Can Read Your Messages. A Federal Agent Spent 10 Months Disagreeing.

WhatsApp Says No One Can Read Your Messages. A Federal Agent Spent 10 Months Disagreeing.

The Signal Protocol works. Everything built around it is where things get complicated.

May 22, 20269 min read

The Patch Queue Is the New Vulnerability

The Patch Queue Is the New Vulnerability

AI tools are finding bugs faster than the industry can fix them. The bottleneck moved -- and no one told the people at the end of the pipeline.

May 18, 20269 min read

The Week the Toolchain Became the Kill Chain

The Week the Toolchain Became the Kill Chain

Cisco SD-WAN, a supply chain worm, and an AI agent that let anyone in. They weren't three separate stories.

May 17, 202610 min read12

ShinyHunters Didn't Breach 9,000 Schools. They Breached One Vendor. Your Institution Inherited the Rest.

ShinyHunters Didn't Breach 9,000 Schools. They Breached One Vendor. Your Institution Inherited the Rest.

When your vendor's credentials become your exposure

May 8, 202610 min read28

The Floor Has Been Hit: Navigating the 2026 Systems Engineering Realignment

The Floor Has Been Hit: Navigating the 2026 Systems Engineering Realignment

Human in the Lead" Mandate is Defining the 2026 Tech Recovery

May 3, 20263 min read20

I Handed Claude Code the Keys to a Fresh VM and Walked Away. Here's What Broke.

I Handed Claude Code the Keys to a Fresh VM and Walked Away. Here's What Broke.

Lessons learned from letting an AI agent build a self-hosted inference stack and the five configuration traps it missed.

Apr 30, 202610 min read8