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Posted August 27, 2026
In authentication, compliance, cybersecurity, NIST, passwords, policy

The Password Memo Was Honest. The Checklist Wasn’t.

The 2004 NIST memo blamed for password composition rules hedged its own numbers and predicted how users would defeat them. It also never contained the 90-day rotation rule everyone attributes to it.

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Posted August 24, 2026
In compliance, cybersecurity, FDA, regulation, software licensing, vulnerability management

As Is: How Software Became the Only Product You Could Legally Sell Broken

For forty years software shipped with every default warranty disclaimed. Two EU instruments arriving in 2026 and 2027 remove that baseline - and the disclaimer stops working.

A precisely drawn square boundary with a soft glow spilling well beyond its edges, illustrating an AI agent whose real reach extended past the sandbox drawn on the design document

Posted August 20, 2026
In AI, AI agents, cybersecurity, DevOps, incident response, observability

The Production Incident Class Your Postmortem Template Doesn’t Have

An agent that follows its instructions perfectly can still take down a third party. Why blameless postmortems assume three things autonomous agents do not provide.

A pressure gauge on a pipeline resting calmly in the green zone while the pipe behind it bulges under strain, illustrating a load test report that reads normal while the system is close to failure

Posted August 17, 2026
In benchmarking, capacity planning, latency, load testing, performance

Why Load Test Numbers Lie

Four structural biases in load testing all point the same way: toward optimism. What the numbers hide, and the five questions that expose it.

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Posted August 10, 2026
In AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, npm, supply chain, vulnerability management

When Config Became Executable: The Twenty-Year Pattern Behind Supply Chain Attacks

Across event-stream, SolarWinds, xz utils and the 2026 npm worms, the malicious artifact was never in the repository anyone reviewed. Why CVE-based scanning was blind to 100% of documented campaigns, and why AI agent config files are only the newest file that executes without being called code.

A medical imaging machine dissolving from left to right into geometric data blocks, illustrating hardware becoming software

Posted August 5, 2026
In AI, EU MDR, FDA, medical devices, regulation, SaMD

How Software Became a Medical Device

The Therac-25 reached the US market in 1983 by declaring itself equivalent to something already on sale. Forty years later, 97% of AI-enabled medical devices get there the same way. How the category was assembled backwards, one definitional crisis at a time.

Two wax certification seals beside two unsealed scrolls, illustrating that only SOC 2 and ISO 27001 produce an artifact while GDPR and HIPAA do not

Posted August 2, 2026
In compliance, data privacy, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2

Compliant With What? A Working Map of GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 and ISO 27001

Two of the four are laws you can only be found in violation of; two are attestations you can buy. A practical map of what each framework actually asks, where the control sets genuinely overlap, and why the published overlap figures range from 43% to 85%.

A balance scale weighing a glowing stack of local server racks against a cloud icon, with a percentage gauge as the fulcrum deciding the tilt

Posted July 27, 2026
In AI infrastructure, data privacy, GDPR, LLM, local AI

Local AI vs Cloud AI: The Break-Even Is About Utilization, Not Tokens

One vendor says $1,500 gets you running a local LLM. Another quotes a $237,000 annual floor. Both are telling the truth — and neither number is the one that decides whether on-premise AI makes sense for you.

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Posted July 23, 2026
In compliance, data privacy, DPO, GDPR, SaaS

Does Your SaaS Actually Need a Data Protection Officer? Running the Article 37 Test

The GDPR question SaaS founders ask most often has no numeric answer — it turns on two deliberately undefined phrases. And whichever way you land, you need to be able to show your work.

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Posted July 19, 2026
In AI, QA, quality engineering, software testing, test automation

AI Didn’t Kill Manual QA — It Killed the Boring Half of It

Three years of predictions said AI would replace software testers. Instead, 89% of organizations are experimenting with AI in QA, only 15% have scaled it, AI-generated code has become the industry's biggest new source of bugs — and the testers who remain are being paid more, not less.

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