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No one hacked the NSA Article

No one hacked the NSA

The NSA's Mythos access loss wasn't a breach - it was a control-plane revocation by a third party. A supply chain availability failure with no patch.

Two thousand keys against one lock
Article identity validation

Two thousand keys against one lock

A coordinated brute-force of 2,000 attempts against one AI assistant's credential path shows weak identity validation is a systemic boundary failure.

Cloudflare's self-managed OAuth secures nothing by default
Article oauth

Cloudflare's self-managed OAuth secures nothing by default

Cloudflare's self-managed OAuth moves the enforcement point from provider to user. An unconfigured access control is an open path, not a safe default.

CVE-2009-1897 is back, now under every @bitCast
Article memory-safety

CVE-2009-1897 is back, now under every @bitCast

How Zig's @bitCast lowering and LLVM's optimizer can synthesize exploitable use-after-free bugs that no source review or EDR will ever see.

Every model behind an API is already leaking
Article LLM security

Every model behind an API is already leaking

Anthropic's Alibaba extraction claim isn't a model failure, it's architecture. The API boundary was never a security guarantee, and designing it is your job.

Governments collect populations, not threats
Article mass surveillance

Governments collect populations, not threats

Mass surveillance is default-on collection plus retention. The unwatched baseline is gone. Operate as already collected and limit what the record resolves.

LuaJIT proposal exposes a guard-elision primitive
Article luajit

LuaJIT proposal exposes a guard-elision primitive

LuaJIT's proposed relaxed type checking elides JIT trace guards, creating a type-confusion primitive reachable wherever embedded Lua handles untrusted input.

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