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Featured image of post From $8 to 11 Cents: How I Slashed Data Breach Report Costs by 99%
AI Security

From $8 to 11 Cents: How I Slashed Data Breach Report Costs by 99%

How I cut data breach report costs to 11 cents. Pipeline optimization reduced the cost 7x and the other 10x came from switching from Anthropic to OpenAI models.

Sep 08, 2026
4 minute read
Featured image of post Security Research Without Asking Permission
AI Security

Security Research Without Asking Permission

What it took to run IronCurtain and DeepSeek V4 Flash on two DGX Sparks, and how it enabled a private multi-day libssh audit.

Aug 26, 2026
8 minute read
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Featured image of post Security at Machine Speed Is the Wrong Race
Security AI

Security at Machine Speed Is the Wrong Race

Machine-speed exploitation will outrun reactive defense. Security invariants create resilience by eliminating attack paths before an incident begins.

Jul 22, 2026
10 minute read
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Featured image of post When AI Safety Becomes a Competitive Moat
AI Security

When AI Safety Becomes a Competitive Moat

Anthropic wants government to turn frontier AI into a permissioned market. Determined users can route around the gate through foreign and open-weight models, while compliant American companies bear its costs.

Jul 18, 2026
7 minute read
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Featured image of post Escape QEMU: Watching IronCurtain and an Open-Weight Model Break Out
Security Hacking

Escape QEMU: Watching IronCurtain and an Open-Weight Model Break Out

A concrete run of defensive vulnerability research on open weights you control. Driving IronCurtain's workflow, GLM 5.2 builds a reproducible proof-of-concept escape of QEMU's public EDU teaching device from analysis to host code execution. The capability benefits from orchestration and does not depend on any one model.

Jun 30, 2026
14 minute read
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Security Hacking

Two Talks: AI Zero-Days and Security Invariants

Slide decks from two recent talks built on IronCurtain, embedded for reading here.

Jun 23, 2026
2 minute read
Featured image of post The Case For Open-Weight Models And Why We Can't Trust Frontier Labs
AI Security

The Case For Open-Weight Models And Why We Can't Trust Frontier Labs

A frontier API can refuse, change, or vanish out from under you. Open weights keep the model you depend on yours.

Jun 15, 2026
15 minute read
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