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Why CSA STAR Can't Govern AI Agents (And What Comes Next)
55+ min ago (288+ words) STAR works for cloud. It breaks for agents. Here's why'and what the next governance layer requires. CSA STAR has been a cornerstone of cloud security for over a decade. It works well for SaaS vendors, cloud providers, and human-operated systems....
JWT Is Stateless — But Real Apps Aren’t
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (260+ words) Why Modern Systems Use Hybrid Stateful Authentication (Like Facebook) For years, JSON Web Tokens (JWT) have been promoted as the silver bullet for authentication. They're fast, scalable, and eliminate server-side sessions. But then you look at how real-world platforms like…...
CI-Embedded Security
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (604+ words) Part of The Coercion Saga " making AI write quality code. Linters catch your mistakes. Type checkers catch your assumptions. But what about security? That's a different beast entirely. Three attack surfaces. Three different problems. Dependencies " Other people's code. You install…...
Coordination Is the Substrate: What NVIDIA's Groq Acquisition Really Signals About AI Governance
2+ hour, 59+ min ago (432+ words) Intelligence was never the threat. Coordination is. And every existing governance framework breaks at that point. For years, the industry has obsessed over intelligence'bigger models, more parameters, faster inference. But the real shift arrived quietly, almost invisibly, in a move…...
What the heck is OpenClaw/Clawbot/MoltBot?
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (587+ words) Something happened recently in the world of AI agents. All of a sudden, people around me started going crazy about this new AI agent whose name has already changed three times. But AI agents are not new. They've been around…...
Gatekeeper, Silence, and a File Manager That Just Needed Permission
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (268+ words) At first I shrugged. Gatekeeper. Seen this a hundred times. I right-clicked the app, chose Open, confirmed I trusted it, and expected to move on. Instead, the app icon bounced once in the Dock and disappeared. No error dialog. No…...
Flutter Security: Why `isMockLocation` Is Dead in 2026 (And How to Fix It)
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (351+ words) If you are building a logistics, ride-sharing, or field-attendance app in Flutter, you have likely written this line of code before: Five years ago, this was enough. In 2026, this is security theater. The truth is, if your business relies on…...
When "Internal" Stops Meaning Safe
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (1575+ words) For a long time, internal was a boundary. If traffic stayed inside the network perimeter, if services talked over RFC 1918 address space, if access required VPN tunnels or corporate SAML assertions'we treated it as lower risk. Not risk-free. Just understood....
Why 'Localhost' is a Myth: Your Clipboard is a Public API
5+ hour, 7+ min ago (90+ words) The Invisible Leak We treat Localhost like a fortress. "It's just on my machine. It's safe." But how did the data get there? You copied it. The "Sanitize First" Habit (The New Hygiene) In security, we wash our hands. You…...
Cookies Explained — How They Work & Header-Based Auth vs Cookie-Based Auth
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (288+ words) A Backend Engineer's Deep-Dive What they usually mean is: " Cookies, headers, sessions, tokens, browser behavior " all mixed together. This article clears that confusion from the ground up. But real apps need memory: So browsers introduced cookies. A cookie is a…...