Thoughts, experiences, and insights from my journey in technology, automation, and the occasional failed experiment.
The State Department just put a $10 million bounty on two Russia-linked crews who talked Signal and WhatsApp users into handing over their backup recovery key. No exploit, no cracked encryption, just a fake support agent and a sense of urgency. The lock held. The person holding the phone did not. After nearly 30 years in this field, that gap is the whole job, and it is not closing anytime soon.
Read MoreSecond in a series on trust theft. A security firm never hacked anything. It forged a badge: merged a fake skill into a 36,000-star marketplace, ran an Instagram ad, and watched it spread to roughly 26,000 AI agents while every scanner called it safe. The payload was never in the package. It lived on a page the skill pointed to, swapped clean after the scan cleared.
Read MoreThe first in a short series about one pattern: nothing gets hacked, something gets trusted that shouldn't. Bernie Sanders sat down with WIRED, got asked why we call Russian billionaires oligarchs but call ours entrepreneurs, and accidentally described a social-engineering attack running at the scale of a whole democracy's vocabulary. A nearly 30-year cybersecurity veteran reads Citizens United, Super PACs, and the AI automation push as one unpatched exploit wearing three costumes.
Read MoreA Car Coach Reports video gets the first half right: the corner gas station is not gouging you. Then it hands you a respectable lie, that it is all taxes and California. That is the next layer of the same con. Part 3 of the series is about who is holding the valve, and why they need you confused to keep holding it.
Read MoreFirst they repealed the middle class. Now they're renting it back to you, one month at a time. Musician and analyst Benn Jordan calls it Leveragism. I've spent almost thirty years inside the software industry that pioneered the model, and I watched it spread from the server room to your driveway and living room. Here's where the keys are.
Read MoreA. Mechele Dickerson went on The Daily Show to explain how America engineered its middle class through deliberate policy, then dismantled it the same way. I filed Chapter 7 on October 15, 2025. Here's what that looks like up close, and why my fall wasn't a moral failing but a predictable output.
Read MoreSecurity researcher Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta framework explains why virtually every AI agent deployment is already a PII/BII timebomb: private data access + exposure to untrusted content + the ability to communicate externally. All three conditions exist in your environment right now.
Read MoreAI just found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks. It's better at finding bugs than exploiting them, for now. That gap is closing faster than anyone is prepared for.
Read MoreI'm a 49-year-old chronic pain patient with a fused spine, a late-in-life AuDHD diagnosis, and nearly a decade of opioid dependency behind me. Medical cannabis gave me my life back. In return, my home state of Texas won't let me legally access it, federal law calls me a criminal for crossing state lines to get it, and the same government that approves pharmaceutical cannabis derivatives wants to strip my Second Amendment rights over a plant. I'm done being quiet.
Read MoreThe founders knew that controlling the flow of information is how kings control what people think. In 2026 that control is being rebuilt from two directions: billionaires buying the pipes, from CBS to TikTok to a bid for CNN's parent, and a Presidency squeezing the valves with lawsuits, FCC pressure, and press bans. The answer is not to fight inside their systems. It is to build new ones.
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