https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com Technical writing on networking, security, infrastructure, and AI tooling. From BGP mishaps to SOC operations. en-us Sat, 23 May 2026 17:37:14 GMT https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=when-the-mirrors-go-dark https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=when-the-mirrors-go-dark Fri, 08 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A deterministic kernel LPE drops on Tuesday. The largest Linux distro's update infrastructure goes dark on Wednesday. Patch distribution just turned out to be critical infrastructure that nobody was defending. security infrastructure operational-resilience ai https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=when-the-robots-hire-the-humans https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=when-the-robots-hire-the-humans Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT AI agents are building companies, spawning humans for phone calls, and writing malware that slips past enterprise defenses. The future isn't AI vs. humans. 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That's the problem. security ai infrastructure https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=agent-is-the-implant https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=agent-is-the-implant Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT A GitHub issue title was used to steal npm publishing credentials and push unauthorized software to millions of developer machines. The attacker didn't write shellcode. 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Turns out this is actually pretty fascinating technology that explains how cloud providers can spin up isolated environments in milliseconds. security containers infrastructure https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=ttl-traceroute-usability https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=ttl-traceroute-usability Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT NOCs have been misinterpreting traceroute output for decades. Richard Steenbergen has been giving NANOG tutorials about it since forever. The new 'ttl' tool addresses many of these usability issues. networking tools troubleshooting https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=ai-exploration-journey https://www.isyourmissioncritical.com/blog?post=ai-exploration-journey Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT My first blog post since 2014. Twelve years later, I'm documenting what it's like to build with AI in 2026, so future me can look back and laugh at how primitive this all was. ai tooling automation