Maintaining the Signal
Three months and three releases after launching Fauxx, the most interesting work wasn't a new feature. It was the decisions I had to reverse. What maintaining an open-source privacy app actually teaches you.
The Forge — digitalgrease
Making, Breaking, Learning, Fixing.
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Meridian: drift audit, with receipts
Meridian is live. A longitudinal record of how commercial LLMs drift on contested topics: what v0.1 runs, how it's defensible, and what each tier of funding unlocks.
Smudge: Stop Trying to Survive the Codec
Adversarial face perturbation has spent five years trying to make perturbations survive video compression. That framing is the bug. Smudge points the SPECTER inversion at libx264 - use the quantizer as the amplifier, not the obstacle.
SPECTER: Hunting Ghosts in the KV Cache
Two research domains have been studying KV cache attacks and quantization exploitation separately. SPECTER bridges the gap, testing whether crafted input tokens can exploit quantization boundaries in the KV cache to manipulate model behavior through normal inference.
Signal to Soil
From rural dial-up to city tech careers to building a forge on the same kind of land I spent my adolescence aching to leave.
Phosphor and Static
On CRT glow, LAN parties, and the quality of attention we lost when technology stopped being strange enough to be magic.
Tin Cans and Strings: VoIP as a Covert Channel
VoIP as a covert data exfiltration channel — encoding files as mFSK audio inside legitimate SIP/RTP calls.
Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It.
If you can't stop ad networks from collecting your data, make what they collect useless. Building Fauxx: an Android tool for behavioral data poisoning.
Welcome to The Forge
The inaugural post: what this blog is about and what to expect.