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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 · Engadget

Apple iMac M6 review: Faster, more expensive and deeply in need of a refresh

Most buyers would be better off with a Mac mini and a bigger external display.

From the Wire · MIT Technology Review

The Download: Texas’s fragile AI boom and energy policy shifts

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data…

From the Wire · The Verge +1

Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies. Electron web apps are notoriously heavy on sy…

From the Wire · The Verge +1

Motorola is going ultra premium with its $1,600 ‘Signature’ phone

This green is so nice I can almost forgive the camera bump looking like a spider’s face. | Image: Motorola Motorola is trying something it hasn't attempted in the modern smartpho…

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