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Article dd writes raw sectors below the filesystem
Why the Unix dd command is a real security primitive: raw block writes below the filesystem, wiper TTPs, exfiltration, and the telemetry gap defenders miss.
htop is a reconnaissance surface
How htop and top expose Linux resource contention - OOM-killer steering, D-state telemetry gaps, niced miners, and PID exhaustion mapped to MITRE T1562 and T1499.
OAuth converts consent into standing permission
OAuth 2.0 issues a token, not an identity. It verifies authority once at consent and honours the reference thereafter, without ever revalidating the grant.
Palantir was blacklisted for working exactly as designed
Spain's Palantir blacklist is not about capability. It is what happens when a system executes trust granted once and never revalidates its lawful basis.
The unread binary every compiler still trusts
Translating rustc to C changes the compiler's substrate, not its logic of trust: build pipelines execute on resolved references, never verified content.
YouTube exposed creators' private videos
YouTube creators' private videos were accessed and leaked. The private label failed as an access control. What that failure exposes, defined strictly.
Alibaba bans Claude Code across its engineering org
Alibaba's reported ban on Claude Code is a trust decision, not a CVE. Why an agentic coding tool's sanctioned egress is also its exfiltration path.
The Wire — latest
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- Codex telemetry shows GPT-5.5 reasoning tokens pinning to 516, 1034, 1552
- Databricks' LTAP: Postgres and analytics on one copy of data, no CDC
- ESO warns 1.7M planned satellites would wreck ground-based astronomy
- Jellyfish close wounds in minutes — and their repair mechanics may map to human skin
- JWST's Early Universe Breaks the Rules: Red Dots, Impossible Black Holes
- New Proof Ties Market Competition to P vs NP — and Warns AI May Kill It
- Newer Claude models fumble tool schemas their predecessors handled cleanly
- Odin's Wikipedia Deletion and the Engagement Economy of Performative Disinterest
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