notes

notes aren’t dated. they aren’t necessarily finished either.

some are arguments, some are observations, some are things i wanted to write down before i forgot them. they may change without notice.

  1. the api does not care about your phd⁠

    a broken access-control check does not become secure because somebody senior says the architecture is sound. institutions are much worse at this than computers are.

  2. cybersecurity and petplay⁠

    why hackers are disproportionately boypups, furries, catgirls and other strange internet creatures, including me; and what pseudonymity, hacker culture, sexual subcultures and breaking technological rules have to do with breaking social ones.

  3. making machines hack machines⁠

    we spent decades teaching humans to break computers. now we’re teaching computers to autonomously reason about, attack and compromise other computers.

  4. you have to care when nobody is paying⁠

    you can get the certifications, learn the methodology and have a completely successful security career. the level past that seems to require caring when nobody is paying you to.

  5. intelligence is getting cheap. curiosity isn’t.⁠

    access to answers is rapidly approaching zero marginal cost. knowing which questions are worth asking isn’t.

  6. i don’t want an ai that agrees with me⁠

    the most useless possible machine intelligence might be one optimized to make its user feel correct.