Field notes from the
edge of certainty.
Technical writing on sovereign sensing, verifiable AI, and the discipline of turning noisy environments into evidence you can defend. No hype, no hand-waving — the architecture, and the honest limits.
Field notes
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The Honeypot Tripwire: Turn Your Own Website Into a Recon Detector
Most sites cannot tell a curious visitor from someone quietly mapping them before an attack. A few invisible honeypot paths, plus consent-respecting fingerprinting, turn your own site into a tripwire — with honest limits and a sovereign, first-party design.
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Persistent Overwatch Without Cameras
Wide-area motion imagery gave militaries persistent overwatch — and a camera-shaped legal problem. Here is the architecture, and the honest limits, of tracking devices instead of faces.
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Preserving Attorney-Client Privilege in the Age of AI-Assisted Discovery
AI is now doing document review — and most of it runs in someone else’s cloud. Privilege survives on confidentiality, and confidentiality is an architecture decision. The case for keeping privileged material on hardware the firm controls, and the honest limits of that answer.
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More notes are in the pipeline — sovereign AI you can verify offline, the confidence-triad data model, and the ethics of ground-up sensing. Follow the work on GitHub.