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Research and field notes.

Deep dives, threat analysis, and notes from the work - mostly on AI and agent security, sometimes on whatever is breaking this week.

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InfluenceChat: What Failed While Building A Manipulation Dataset

A research note on why real manipulative assistance requests were much harder to retrieve from public LLM logs than expected.

June 3, 20263 min readAI Safety Research

Read note

January 18, 20263 min read

AI Safety in Industrial Control Systems

AI can optimize industrial systems, but safety still has to be enforced by deterministic controls.

Industrial Security
January 17, 20263 min read

The $15,000 Acid Bath

Why destructive chip decapsulation still matters when hardware provenance really has to be verified.

Hardware Security
January 9, 20263 min read

Inside The /ghs Label Builder

Why I built a small browser tool for GHS labels, and what it actually does.

Tools
December 15, 20253 min read

December 2025 Site Notes

A short update on the site, privacy language, and the kind of work I am taking on.

Updates
January 17, 20253 min read

Zero Trust Without The Vendor Fog

A practical reading of NIST SP 800-207 and the parts of Zero Trust that matter during implementation.

Cybersecurity
January 15, 20254 min read

Home Lab Foundations

A practical Proxmox-based lab setup for learning security, infrastructure, and monitoring without pretending it is production.

Home Lab
July 2, 202110 min read

TOGAF And Zachman For Security Architecture

A practical comparison of TOGAF and Zachman for security teams that need structure without drowning in framework ceremony.

TOGAFZachman FrameworkEnterprise Architecture
June 15, 20218 min read

Using C4 Diagrams In Security Work

A practical way to use C4 diagrams for trust boundaries, data flows, and incident response.

C4 ModelArchitecture DiagramsCybersecurity
May 20, 20219 min read

4+1 Architecture Views For Security Reviews

How the 4+1 view model can keep security architecture from collapsing into one overloaded diagram.

4+1 ArchitectureKruchtenSystem Architecture