The Signal

Intelligence, engineering, and philosophy from the front lines of the digital trust war.

Dec 29, 2025 Threat Intel

The AI Arms Race: Automated Deception

Attackers are manufacturing synthetic identities at industrial scale. Defense must be automated because attack is already automated.

Dec 28, 2025 Strategy

Protocol Level Trust: Beyond Binary Verification

Applying the "Traffic Light Protocol" to content. Why we need "Restricted Reality" for sensitive information sharing.

Dec 26, 2025 Engineering

Building with C2PA: A Developer's Primer

A technical guide to the C2PA standard. How to cryptographically bind assertions to assets using the Vericord SDK.

Dec 22, 2025 Architecture

Immutable History: Why We Chose Besu

Scalability vs. Decentralization vs. Privacy. Why Hyperledger Besu offers the perfect "permissioned transparency" for enterprise trust.

Dec 15, 2025 Vision

The Liar's Dividend: A 2025 Forecast

When bad actors claim real evidence is fake, truth itself is devalued. How cryptographic provenance reverses the burden of proof.