Cyber

Buccaneers at the Keyboard

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Buccaneers at the Keyboard

Sam August 13, 2026

The Legal, Strategic, and Operational Risks of Privatized Offensive Cyber Operations Why a CISO Should Care On...

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Ox Carts of Thunder

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Ox Carts of Thunder

Sam August 9, 2026

What a Forgotten 1972 Growth Model Tells Us About Cybersecurity That CMM Never Could The thunderheads of...

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DoD(w)s Land of Misfit CMMC Toys

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DoD(w)s Land of Misfit CMMC Toys

Sam August 6, 2026

It’s 5PM somewhere. I had just passed the bottom of the J in Jefferson’s Bourbon and was...

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The Phone Wiped Before They Seized It: What the Tunick Border Case Actually Turns On

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The Phone Wiped Before They Seized It: What the Tunick Border Case Actually Turns On

Sam July 28, 2026

A story moving through privacy circles right now has a clean, alarming shape: federal agents forced a...

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Fifty Reports Deep and the Strait Is Still Closed

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Fifty Reports Deep and the Strait Is Still Closed

Sam July 27, 2026

The internet is on fire again, and I am sitting in the cockpit of EOTI drinking coffee...

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Run the Loop: What Cybersecurity Refuses to Learn from Everyone Else

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Run the Loop: What Cybersecurity Refuses to Learn from Everyone Else

Sam July 24, 2026

In 1970, Willis Ware delivered a classified report to the Defense Science Board that laid out the...

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The CMMC Verification Tax

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The CMMC Verification Tax

Sam July 15, 2026

What the CMMC Phase II suspension actually revealed about who was paying for what On July 13,...

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CMMC Baseline Did Not Move. The Floor Did

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CMMC Baseline Did Not Move. The Floor Did

Sam July 13, 2026

On July 13, 2026, the Department of War suspended the November 2026 transition to mandatory third-party CMMC...

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The Email That Passed Every Test and Still Tried to Rob Me

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The Email That Passed Every Test and Still Tried to Rob Me

Sam July 9, 2026

The story you are about to see is true. The names have not been changed to protect...

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The Serial Number on the Door: Seventy-five thousand firewalls, a forty-eight-card GPU monster, and nobody will tell me how they got in

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The Serial Number on the Door: Seventy-five thousand firewalls, a forty-eight-card GPU monster, and nobody will tell me how they got in

Sam June 18, 2026

Sitting on the beach looking at the Atlantic there are rain clouds out on the horizon and...

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