For the entirety of my career there’s always been a substantial gap between what security vendors promise and the actual threat-landscape out in the wild. Lately, however, that gap has dramatically widened in a very defined, dangerous direction. When advanced AI systems are tested with safety controls deliberately reduced or removed and they’re we are…
Everything is NOT what it seems… As Usual. A couple of days back CNBC ran a news piece reporting that three of the world’s top AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta) had all admitted to the same problem within days of each other: Their most advanced systems had broken out of controlled security tests, reached…
Strategic Exhaustion, Hormuz Control, and the Growing Costs for Households in North America and Europe. Five months after the major escalation of the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, the war’s strategic balance has shifted massively. The United States and Israel are materially and operationally depleted. Iran holds the decisive advantage both in the wider conflict and,…
During my career in disaster prevention/recovery I’ve spent years dealing with real-world threat models, both at the corporate and personal levels. And, based upon my extensive professional experience I cannot emphasize strongly enough that: I treat any VPN with meaningful Israeli ownership, founding, or operational ties as an elevated risk by default. This is not…
Three of the Muslim world’s most consequential powers just formalized a collective security arrangement that quietly redraws the regional map. And while public attention remains firmly fixed on the grinding conflict with Iran and the almost daily Houthi escalations, this agreement marks a deeper structural shift. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have chosen to bind…
Deep Dive: Scary as Hell… Following a recent appearance by Remote Viewing legend Dick Allgire on “THE WACKY WOO SHOW with JC” I decided to take a closer look at Nano-Diamond Quantum Sensing Technology (NDQST) and some of the things forecast by the Future Forecasters Group (FFG) remote viewing team. Now chances are you’ve never…
Last week’s joint U.S.–Japan currency intervention was presented as a technical operation to correct “disorderly” moves in the yen. However, our analysis suggests something more revealing: a carefully engineered delay of a debt problem that can no longer be contained inside Japan’s own markets. The decision to fund the U.S. leg of the intervention by…
“How Governments and Media Propagandize Populations… And How Ordinary People Can Protect Their Psychological Independence“ I’ve quite literally spent decades working with and building information systems, and examining the intersections between technology, state power, and mass psychology. So I cannot and will not treat propaganda as the historical curiosity or as a tool reserved solely…
The last few weeks have delivered a clearer signal than usual. There’s no longer any doubt that what seem like “isolated policy moves” are forming a consistent pattern: the zone of private life is being narrowed, one legal ruling, technical feature, and “safety” measure at a time. I write this as someone who has spent…
This is NOT the Future. This IS happening NOW. Federal prosecutors are trying to put a man in prison for the crime of protecting his private data. Samuel Tunick was flagged by AI-assisted surveillance systems for the sole offense of political association, detained at an Atlanta airport without a warrant, denied a lawyer, and ordered…
