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A few pieces I wanted to show people, mostly on software security. Some of it is research, some is coursework from my degree, and the rest comes from my own projects.

  • The Economics of a Zero-Day

    How a single secret bug gets priced, who pays, and why the number keeps climbing. The mechanics of the zero-day market, from white-market bounties to seven-figure broker deals, the iOS-versus-Android price flips, and the state sitting as buyer, referee, and regulator all at once.

    type
    analysis
  • Marking the Machine

    The arms race over AI-generated text: watermarking, post-hoc detection, and the cheap paraphrase that breaks both. Backed by a small local experiment, two detectors collapsing from ~0.95 to ~0.65 AUROC after a single rewrite, and the case for provenance over detection.

    type
    analysis + experiment
  • Too Dangerous to Release

    We are getting good at detecting when a frontier model is dangerous, but not at stopping it from shipping. The containment and proliferation problem: once a capable model exists, the weights leak and copies spread, and the real question is whether governance or international treaties can hold the line.

    type
    analysis
  • Does AI Actually Write Insecure Code?

    What the actual studies, benchmarks, and enterprise telemetry say about the security of AI-generated code, separating the hype from the reality. Where the real risk concentrates, which vulnerability classes recur, and why the model is rarely the whole story.

    type
    research review