We finally killed the long-lived developer API key, a massive victory for open-source security. But as NDSS 2026 and USENIX Enigma '25 revealed, attackers haven't given up—they've just moved to our build pipelines and flooded our vulnerability data. Here is what we must do next.
I take a look at the history of measuring time—from sand glasses to atomic clocks—and explain the clever physics behind using a smartphone speaker to force a digital wall clock to sync with the Internet's exact time.
At NDSS 2026, Dan Wallach outlined DARPA's ambitious plan to eradicate memory safety bugs using AI. He then talked about what happens after we solve memory safety and then need to secure hardware against physical decay. I take a look at how election security principles are scaling to protect the global Internet. (corrected on 8 May to recognize Dr. Shauna Sweet manages COOP.)
Climate change warms the Earth's surface, but it actually cools the upper atmosphere. This paradox is quietly making the space debris problem in Low Earth Orbit much worse.
I've officially joined a long-term wager on the future of Internet security: will quantum computers break current encryption before mathematicians break new quantum defenses?