Security theater is expensive
The performance has a budget, a cast, and a recurring booking. The question is whether anyone in the audience is actually safer.
The archive
Articles
Security, AI, and the systems behind them. Newest first.
Friction is a bug
When the secure path is the hard path, people route around it. Friction is not a virtue signal — it is a defect report.
We don't have a system of record for security
Your security posture is whatever your data hub says it is. If the record is wrong, every downstream decision inherits the error.
Security creates work. Let's stop.
Most security work is the residue of decisions made elsewhere. The interesting question is what it costs the people who have to live inside the control.