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The Human Behind the Keyboard
Jeff Kimbrow on independent security research, professional frustration, relentless curiosity, and remembering to close the laptop.
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Researching what systems lose at their boundaries.
Silicon Gremlin is an active research practice studying observability, constraint, and the transfer of structure across technical and cognitive systems.
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16Public blogs
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ACTIVE OBJECTS
A practice made visible through its work.
Each object exposes what it is, why it matters, what evidence exists, and where the investigation currently stands.
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From Fault to Paper
An evidence-bounded case study of state observability across mobile and automotive systems.
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Im-mutable State
A controlled restore comparison: the modified SystemVolume cache is associated with failure at 0x6B4, while the preserved known-good cache completes with status 0.
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PASTDOOR
After BlastDoor: State Transformation Across Trusted System Services. Follow accepted state as trusted system consumers reconstruct and act on it.
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More Trusting Than Boundary-ing
How legitimate systems amplify trust across shared infrastructure without requiring a boundary to fail.
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RDx86
An engineering perspective on improving responsible disclosure through better communication, continuity, and intent.
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DIFFRACTION
A program for describing how state, signals, and causality change as they cross boundaries in runtime systems.
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Boundary-Constrained State Evolution
Observability loss in runtime systems, preserved as a public research record.
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PSI
Pressure Sensitive Investigations: an engineering perspective on confidentiality, scope, communication pressure, and investigative observability.
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The Frame Before Unlock
A deterministic optical stress test, preserved frame sequence, and the question raised by pre-unlock imagery.
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RTmount
State retention and representation fidelity across update, filesystem, and recovery boundaries.
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Boundary analysis
A repeatable method for preserving state, mapping transformations, testing constraints, and publishing evidence.
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Research log
- Cross-Vendor State Observability published
An evidence-bounded case study of state observability across mobile and automotive systems.
- PASTDOOR published
Records state transformation across trusted system services.
- RTmount published
Examines state retention and representation fidelity across update, filesystem, and recovery boundaries.