quick notes, unfinished arguments, observations, heresies and ideas that haven’t earned a proper essay yet.https://ni5arga.github.io/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/the-api-does-not-care-about-your-phd/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/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.https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/cybersecurity-and-petplay/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/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.https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/making-machines-hack-machines/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/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.https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/you-have-to-care-when-nobody-is-paying/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/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.https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/intelligence-is-getting-cheap-curiosity-isnt/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/intelligence-is-getting-cheap-curiosity-isnt/access to answers is rapidly approaching zero marginal cost. knowing which questions are worth asking isn’t.https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/i-dont-want-an-ai-that-agrees-with-me/https://ni5arga.github.io/notes/i-dont-want-an-ai-that-agrees-with-me/the most useless possible machine intelligence might be one optimized to make its user feel correct.