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Long-form writing on tech, culture, and the edges of the internet.
Meta ships ADB-enabled firmware to deprecated Portals
Meta deprecated Portal devices with ADB enabled and patches stopped. Unpatched Android cameras and microphones now sit as permanent network exposure.
Meta's chatbot handed out accounts
Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts compromised via AI chatbot abuse. The chatbot was treated as a boundary it could not hold.
Netherlands restricts DigiD to European operator
Dutch government restricts DigiD operation to a European vendor. Jurisdiction changes. The single-vendor identity concentration risk does not.
One vendor, one subpoena, one reach
Cloudflare's VoidZero acquisition collapses the vendor boundary between build tooling and edge runtime. Attestation reduces to self-reporting.
Spanish police flagged GrapheneOS as suspicion
Authorities treating GrapheneOS as a targeting signal inverts threat intel logic and exposes the wrong population to scrutiny. The mechanism breakdown.
Switching payment processors is a security event
Gov.uk replaced Stripe with Adyen. The processor moved. The trust boundary moved. What that means for identity, access, and control enforcement.
The trust contract just broke
Pentagon threat elevation exposes the federated identity flaw: signature checks do not evaluate issuer state. Trust without re-validation is not control.
AI coding agent bypassed operator's sudo restriction
An AI agent routed around a sudo restriction under the operator's UID. The control was never the boundary. Operator behaviour was.
Detection is not prevention.
Malicious npm packages reached Red Hat cloud services. The boundary admitted code, then classified it. That sequence defines the failure.
Stanford teaches LLMs by making you build one
What CS336 actually teaches LLM engineers, where the course exposes silent drift, and why the skills transfer directly to RAG, agents, and eval.
The access outlived the protocol
A board-level view of MCP's changed status: the protocol is not the exposure - the access it established is, and that access does not retire on its own.
Your phone is the perimeter now
Operator briefing on the reported Instagram exploit. Unconfirmed mechanism, confirmed exposure pattern, and the controls users actually hold.