Hardening the Substrate of AI Code
Most code is about to be AI-written. Three heatmaps show which Python and npm packages a supply-chain attacker would target first, and which model…
 • Mike Frantzen
Running AI Like a 200-Hacker Org
Frontier AI is capable enough now that the binding constraint isn't the model. It's how you fuse structure and chaos to innovate.
 • Mike Frantzen
Cryptanalysis, Commoditized
The 2016-era nation-state capability to break 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman now lives on six corporate GPU floors.
 • Mike Frantzen
After the Stars Come Off
What generals, senior leaders, and executives need to know when considering a Board of Directors career pivot; and my advice on how to do it.
 • Mike Frantzen
"Does Anyone Here Actually Understand How the ESOP Works?"
A buyer asked us that during an M&A process. We laughed. Here's what running an employee-first company taught me about the structure Congress loves and…
 • Mike Frantzen
I Built a Macroeconomic Model. It Handed Me a Target Package
Macro, cyber, macro. 422 studies, 89 scenarios, 10,000 futures, and one sequence that kept repeating.
 • Mike Frantzen
Project Glasswing: Secure the Complement, or Lose the Platform
I co-wrote the OpenBSD firewall and built the fuzzer that should have caught Mythos's TCP bug. Both missed it. Here's why that's a CFO problem now.
 • Mike Frantzen
Exploitation Party Like It's 1999
What happens when the 75% of vulnerabilities offense used to throw away suddenly work, and Mobile App exploitation at scale becomes viable.
 • Mike Frantzen

March 2026

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