Cyber Security
Security When a contractor calls a SIEM “our own product”, it is worth asking what exactly is theirs. In our case the answer is this: ours is the layer on top of an open core, not a rewritten engine.
Security A hidden OS is a second encrypted Windows perimeter on the same disk of an ordinary laptop, whose existence cannot be established from the running system, from the bootloader, or from a sector-by-sector disk image.
Security A great deal has been written about Zero Trust, and almost all of it is about principles. It is far more useful to see what those principles turn into under real operation: which decisions get made, what
Security Your phone isn’t a “dialer.” It’s the key to your email, your banks, your messages, your calendar, your location, your microphone and your camera, and you carry it in your pocket 24 hours a day.
Security Telegram lets you sign up with a number that was never issued by a mobile carrier and never lived in a SIM card: a virtual number in the +888 range. People call it “anonymous,”
Security I keep the recovery story of my own crypto security in my own hands. Every tool I’m about to describe runs local-first and offline: it binds to loopback, sends nothing to the cloud, and is built
Digital A few months after I shipped my open-source Home Assistant integration for the Klipsch Flexus, a soundbar over-the-air update killed it. Reads still worked; every write came back 401 Forbidden.
Security A single hardware wallet is a single point of failure. Firmware backdoor, compromised vendor, someone physically grabbing your device and extracting the seed, any one of these and your funds are gone.
Security Complete walkthrough of 11 crypto security devices I actually use: Trezor, Ledger Stax, Nano X, SafePal, CoolWallet, Tangem, Opendime, and three YubiKeys. Real specs, trade-offs, and multisig setup.
Digital You created something. A design, a photograph, a piece of music, an article, a software library, an architectural plan. You know when you made it, how long it took, and what you put into it.
Digital Commercial smart locks that support Apple Home Key or Google Wallet cost north of $250 and lock you into a single vendor ecosystem. The Aliro specification, published in February 2026, finally gives us
Security If you’ve ever tried to sign a Git commit with a YubiKey on macOS and hit a cryptic “General error” from GPG, welcome to the scdaemon PC/SC race condition. I hit this problem repeatedly