Thoughts, experiences, and insights from my journey in technology, automation, and the occasional failed experiment.
Brian Krebs's year-in-review shows America's cyber defenders dismantled from the inside: a third of CISA gone, the Cyber Safety Review Board dismissed mid-investigation, specialists reassigned to deportations, and states cut off from shared protection. A nearly 30-year security veteran on what that means on the ground, and the six fixes that would put it back.
Read MoreThe classic price tag is dying, replaced by data-driven algorithmic price steering. As someone who worked on early digital shelf tags at America's largest grocery chain, I can tell you: it was scary then, it's much scarier now.
Read MoreA Chinese state-sponsored group used Claude Code to run an espionage campaign against about 30 organizations, with the AI doing most of the work, after lying its way past the guardrails. The bigger story is how 'AI safety' is becoming a narrative that centralizes control while the models stay fundamentally exploitable. Vendor safety is not your safety.
Read MoreAll across the U.S., cameras you barely notice are logging license plates and building a record of everyday movement, many owned by venture-backed companies rather than police. Plate misreads have put innocent families on the pavement at gunpoint. Benn Jordan shows the AI can be fooled, but citizens should not need hacks to keep basic privacy.
Read MoreAI is changing both sides of security at once: models that find real vulnerabilities before release, deepfakes convincing enough to walk $25 million out of a company on one video call, and attacks aimed at the AI itself. Speed is the new baseline, and patch velocity and human verification are the controls that matter most.
Read MoreA ground-up walkthrough of HCL BigFix for anyone standing up a first deployment: how the server, database, relays, and agents fit together, the private key that controls every managed machine, the port 52311 rule that decides whether any of it works, and the first thirty days of habits that keep a new deployment from running you.
Read MorePatching and compliance are the price of entry. The real power of BigFix is automation that runs without you: policy actions that heal drift on their own, Fixlet content managed like code through the REST API, targeting driven by Relevance, and reporting that acts on data instead of rotting in an inbox.
Read MoreTen days before our first full year living in the BigFox, a look back at how we found and converted a 2016 Northwood Arctic Fox 31D, what the 40-foot rig before her taught us about size, and what I would do differently: shop on length and height first, buy good bones, and design power and connectivity before pickup day.
Read MoreI live and work full-time in a travel trailer, and nearly every piece of technology that makes that possible was added after it left the factory. My vision for a technology-first RV: power designed as a system, connectivity built in, data the owner controls, and parts you can repair yourself, with no subscription required.
Read MoreBigFox is the nickname lovingly given to our tiny home and is the amalgamation of BigFix & Arctic Fox. She's based on a fully-customized 2016 Northwood Arctic Fox 31D travel trailer.
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