He fabricates nothing. The lie is in the hanging, and no fact-check can reach it. | Continue reading
On the president's new clothes | Continue reading
"We know these changes may result in financial hardship for some," Acting Director Nick Andersen wrote to staff, weeks after DHS told Congress the agency needs 600 more people. | Continue reading
On the provenance and uses of Singh's Law | Continue reading
On LinkedIn, a scammer impersonating a company can get verified more easily than the company can verify its own staff. The lock works; Microsoft owns the key. | Continue reading
The recruiter was real, the company was real, and the code they asked him to run was a hacked poker game that helps fund a nuclear program. | Continue reading
Building a family in Florida now depends on where you were born. The Governor says that's the point. There's also prison time. | Continue reading
Hitler's blitzkrieg ran on amphetamines and a fantasy of permanent victory. There are signs Washington is flirting with the same logic — and that logic has an ending. | Continue reading
U.S. election law catches covert paid influence only when a foreign principal is involved. A narrow federal statute can close the gap without becoming a censorship regime. | Continue reading
He last cast a vote on March 5. He has missed nearly a hundred since. His party says he sounds fine on the phone. Neighbors haven't seen him in months. Neither has any reporter. | Continue reading
Trump said it himself. The May 1 sanctions are designed to finish the job | Continue reading
Inside the network that helped shape the Stuxnet narrative and built companies entrusted with America's critical infrastructure | Continue reading
Jen Easterly ran CISA. Ciaran Martin founded NCSC. They now work at the same Oxford school, funded by a Soviet-born billionaire former Treasury officials say escapes sanctions by passport alone. | Continue reading
How Trump's executive orders on DEI are dismantling American cybersecurity — one accountability structure at a time | Continue reading
The federal case against the OpenAI CEO has survived its first major legal test, and the filings tell a much darker story than the public has been led to believe. | Continue reading
The ships were dark, the data was falsified, and Treasury called it routine. That alone would be a story. It is not the story. | Continue reading
What the Trump administration is selling as a “little excursion” in Iran reads, on the facts, like the opening phase of a much larger regional war that senior officials saw coming and chose anyway. | Continue reading
What the Trump administration is selling as a “little excursion” in Iran reads, on the facts, like the opening phase of a much larger regional war that senior officials saw coming and chose anyway. | Continue reading
Elon Musk's most market-moving signals are the ones regulators can't touch. | Continue reading
Relying on intuition to spot a deepfake in 2026 is like bringing a knife to a drone fight. | Continue reading
How automatic Selective Service registration, government data-mining, and two active wars converge on a single database. | Continue reading
On clearances, salaries, and the structural silence of the American infosec community. | Continue reading
Cycles of shock, adaptation, and exploitation rewrite our tolerance. | Continue reading
Harvard's takedown archive won't explain why my project is "not aligned" with its mission. | Continue reading
You might have noticed fewer posts on Hacking, but Legal lately. | Continue reading
Trump is sending ICE agents to Italy. The backlash has been fierce. | Continue reading
The arson of the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Mississippi reveals a dangerous gap in our understanding of the collision between psychotic illness and digital radicalization | Continue reading
How a single suspicious email from Reagan.com reveals a cybercrime operation spanning three continents, thousands of vulnerable routers, and flaws in Google’s most advanced email protection | Continue reading
The Secretary-General says American withdrawal is illegal. The fight over 17 acres of Manhattan is just beginning. | Continue reading
Musings On The High Price of Walking Away | Continue reading
Retreat Has Consequences. What Happens Next? | Continue reading
My password manager just won a rare honorable mention at the largest crypto hackathon | Continue reading
A retired three-star general is running a sophisticated psychological war on American soil. | Continue reading
Mapping the mechanisms behind America's institutional collapse in 2025. | Continue reading
How FBI Director Patel's misidentifications protected actual shooters while innocent Americans were publicly named as terrorists. | Continue reading
Terrorism's classic gambit is exploiting democracies into damaging themselves. Moscow has adopted it. Here's how it works. | Continue reading
"Kyiv's Most Dangerous Man" claimed to expose Russian influence operations while apparently running one himself. | Continue reading
Loyalty Tests and Identity Purges Now Threaten America’s Fighting Force | Continue reading
The Unthinkable Is Happening Now | Continue reading
How a Trump insider justified targeting me. | Continue reading
An investigation into the claims, tactics, and network behind the "ex-CIA whistleblower" | Continue reading
A new EO targeting New Delhi for Russian oil buys undermines our strategic interests while doing nothing meaningful to counter the Kremlin | Continue reading
The Defense Secretary's bizarre body art predicted his chaotic leadership and pro-Putin policies | Continue reading
A career counterintelligence officer's very public resignation exposes what is now required to serve at the pleasure of FBI Director Kash Patel | Continue reading
A Retrospective on Information Warfare and Democratic Erosion | Continue reading
Promo link (and wild AI video) inside. | Continue reading
How presidents from Belarus to Venezuela have rewritten the rules to stay in power—and why America might not be immune | Continue reading
Before facing felony charges for soliciting a minor, Senator Eichorn sought to diagnose Trump critics—and resurrected a dangerous historical tactic | Continue reading