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  • If AI Won’t Kill Your Job, It’ll Kill Your Critical Thinking

    Feb 6, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Security
    If AI Won’t Kill Your Job, It’ll Kill Your Critical Thinking

    It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s..GenAI?

  • Goodbye 2024, Ready to set 2025 on fire

    Dec 5, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Security, Tech
    Goodbye 2024, Ready to set 2025 on fire

    2024 was a year of AI hype, cybersecurity chaos, and hard-earned lessons—because let’s face it, the tech world never takes a day off

  • Cybersecurity: We’re Our Own Gatekeepers

    Jul 2, 2024
    Tech, Women in Tech
    cybersecurity, engineer
    Cybersecurity: We’re Our Own Gatekeepers

    As we in the industry frolic our way through this summer—also noting that Grace Hopper 2024 registration has been released—our theme remains the same: where are all the women in cybersecurity? I could go on and on about how the tech industry, in general, severely lacks diversity across the board, but I’ll dig the knife…

  • About Me: The Unrefined Banana

    Mar 29, 2023
    Careers, Information Technology
    About Me: The Unrefined Banana

    “Yellow on the outside, white on the inside”

  • Just Another Day At The Fed: The Quiet Collapse of Secure Engineering

    Jul 16, 2025
    Artificial Intelligence, Security, Tech
    Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, grok, Information Technology
    Just Another Day At The Fed: The Quiet Collapse of Secure Engineering

    After a much-needed hiatus, I’m back! This piece unpacks one of the more quietly alarming security failures I’ve seen lately: a careless leak involving private keys tied to xAI’s language models. It’s not just a tech failure. It’s a reflection of what happens when secure coding is treated like an optional side quest. This isn’t…

  • My Cousin joined an MLM: A Recon Exercise

    Aug 14, 2024
    Filipino, Security
    My Cousin joined an MLM: A Recon Exercise

    Disclaimer: This exercise is for educational purposes. Part of what makes my job particularly fun is my ability to freely dive into the internet to understand why people do what they do. Call it detective work but on a corporate level. What I’m about to describe is what happens when I become slightly fixated on…

  • Defcon, BlackHat and Lamp Shades???

    Aug 13, 2024
    Security
    blackhat, corporate tech, cybersecurity, defcon, engineer, hacking conference, palo alto networks, tech industry
    Defcon, BlackHat and Lamp Shades???

    While this year has been another year of digging ourselves out of whatever shithole we somehow fell into, there’s always conference season to look forward to. As a security professional, there are several conferences that I lean into (sometimes attend), and every year, Defcon and BlackHat come up with things that amaze me. If you’re…

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