After Stuxnet: The Weapons It Loosed on the World
Once Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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AI AdoptionThe AI That Lied, Colluded and Won: Inside Vending-Bench
Three frontier AI models ran competing vending machines for a simulated year with nobody watching. The winner built price cartels it knew were illegal, broke eleven truces, and paid customers $8.54 across six runs. What that says about handing an…
ComplianceDocumenting Roles, Not Just Rules: A NIST Project That Got Personal
Four to five months of interviews, C-suite down, mapping every policy to a named role. The project revealed something no framework document warns you about: the CFO did not know what segregation of duties was, and once he understood it,…
AI AdoptionThe AI takeover narratives and today’s tools are different conversations
Many doubters stay out of AI because of the takeover stories, superintelligence, civilizational risk, mass unemployment, machine consciousness, and those deserve serious attention from the people working on them. But using today's tools in your practice is a completely different…
Fiction WritingPolitics in Fiction: How to Write It Without Preaching
Political fiction is really about power, who has it, who wants it, what happens when it shifts, and the best of it never tells you what to think. It puts you inside a system and lets you feel how it…
BiasThe Anatomy of Flawed Political Commentary: A Case Study in Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Bias
This is about reasoning, not partisanship. A widely shared op-ed by a Democratic strategist makes for a clean case study, confident, persuasive on the surface, and built on a stack of logical fallacies and cognitive bias. Picking it apart teaches…
AuditsGood Security Policy Names Names
I wrote a company's security policies against NIST CSF and 800-53, and now I ghostwrite books for the leaders who do this work. Most policy documents fail for two reasons: nobody knows who owns each step, and nobody knows which…