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Founder of Bugcrowd & disclose.io, pioneer of crowdsourced security as-a-service, principal of Tall Poppy Group. Sharp takes on breaking things, building things, fixing things, and the economics in between.
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All →Thoughts on the #slopdemic
Move over #vulnpocalypse — there's a new term we need to talk about: the #slopdemic. AI didn't invent low-quality vuln reports, but it just turbocharged them, and F/OSS is drowning.
Offense Scales with Compute. Defense Scales with Committees.
Why AI is widening the attacker-defender gap faster than anything we've built to close it — and what that actually means for the next decade of security.
Vulnerability economics
The four-line economic frame for every vulnerability: cost to introduce, cost to discover, cost to fix, and the value of exploitation — and why the math matters.
Next things...
Last Saturday Jan 31 was my last day "inside the tent" at Bugcrowd.
2026 security predictions
2026 cybersecurity forecast: China's PLA centenary looms, AI turns anyone into a malware developer, and economic pressure pushes more people toward cybercrime. Shift-left finally start working—but only for modern code. The rest of the internet? A triage trash fire.
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All →The Hitchhiker's Guide to Vulnerability Disclosure in 2026
Post-Mythos vulnerability disclosure: a 2026 field guide for vendors and researchers on AI-era bug bounties, slop triage, and rebuilding ecosystem norms.
Coordinated, Until It Isn't
Everyone has a take on Moksha's 89-vuln XAPI drop. Almost everyone misses the same thing: it wasn't one decision, it was four: go public, go Day-0, withhold patches from Citrix, lean into the "shittrix" frame. Coordinated disclosure runs on goodwill, and the goodwill runs out sometimes.
Thoughts on the #slopdemic
Move over #vulnpocalypse — there's a new term we need to talk about: the #slopdemic. AI didn't invent low-quality vuln reports, but it just turbocharged them, and F/OSS is drowning.
Continued Monitoring of the Situation
Week two of an AI-powered House Finch nest monitor: four model biases, a Wyze cam back from the dead, and a full pipeline rewrite before the eggs hatch.
"Monitoring the Situation" - The Internet of Birbs
Two pale-blue speckled eggs on the sunroom bookshelf turned into three cameras, an Unraid NAS, two AI models, and a journal that writes itself every morning. None of it had to be useful — it just had to be possible. Because joy.
Spicy Takes from my Aikido Security Podcast
Nine takes from my RSAC conversation with Mackenzie Jackson on Aikido's Secure Disclosure podcast — on bug bounty, AI slop, hack-back, vibe coding, and why the internet still working is a minor miracle.
Offense Scales with Compute. Defense Scales with Committees.
Why AI is widening the attacker-defender gap faster than anything we've built to close it — and what that actually means for the next decade of security.
The Compliance Reckoning
AI makes security verification cheap, putting two decades of checkbox compliance, paper pentests, and audit theater under sudden economic pressure.
Bug Bounties in the Age of AI
As AI accelerates the offense-defense asymmetry, bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure remain essential. Casey Ellis on the future of bug bounties, the evolving threat landscape, and how disclose.io and the SRLDF protect the researchers keeping us safe.
The FCC Just Banned Every Foreign-Made Router
The FCC added every foreign-made consumer router to the Covered List — a March 2026 supply-chain action that goes far beyond previous adversary-nation bans.
The White House AI Framework: What It Says, What It Doesn't, and Why the Gaps Matter More
The March 2026 White House AI policy framework analyzed: seven pillars, and why the AI security omissions matter more than what's actually in the document.