Brooker argues that animating a system's behaviour builds intuition no diagram can. Using real Postgres and etcd traces, he shows that metastable failures, where a load spike sets off a loop that feeds itself, happen in mature production software as well as in theory.
Marc Brooker
Drew Silcock surveys a brutal fortnight of disclosures. He argues that AI has cut the time from bug report to working exploit from weeks to hours, though many of the bugs were found by people. His uneasy advice is to assume anything exposed to the internet will be hacked and plan for it.
Drew Silcock
Proton is hosting a researcher's inventory of more than 170,000 Flock cameras and 130,000 other devices. He obtained it through an access token that could be fetched without logging in. Flock sent a cease-and-desist letter. The map reflects December 2025, but it shows the scale of US plate-reading networks.
CyberInsider
Amanda Smith was arrested on an Arkansas warrant after someone used her Social Security number to open a CashApp account that took $1,000 from a Marketplace victim. Six months on, CashApp still won't show her the account. It is a sharp case study in identity verification failing in both directions.
404 Media