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The Network Was Never the Boundary: What mTLS Actually Buys Service-to-Service Traffic

Every internal service already treats "it's on the same network" as proof enough. mTLS replaces that assumption with a certificate check on every connection — which is exactly why it works, and exactly why a bad rotation can take down more at once than an attacker ever could.

The Duke Post · July 28, 2026 Security

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The Data Had No Name on It. It Still Mapped a Secret Military Base.

A 2018 fitness-app heatmap outed military bases without a single name field attached — where PII actually hides in your stack, and which of redaction, masking, tokenization, or encryption actually stops it.

10 min read Security

The Front Door Won't Close: What a DDoS Attack Actually Does to Production

DDoS isn't about traffic volume — it's about bottlenecks, capacity, and how well you can tell attackers apart from real users at 3am.

9 min read Security

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From the Wire · TechCrunch

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From the Wire · The Verge

No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history

In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over two years. Little did I know that…

From the Wire · TechCrunch

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what t…

From the Wire · Engadget

Is there any benefit to keeping your smart TV in standby mode?

A Smart TV doesn't just sit idle when you push the power button on your remote. They're designed to perform a number of important tasks without you realising.

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