Cyber and Post-Quantum Security
Harvest now, decrypt later changes the retention question
If information must stay confidential for fifteen years, the relevant question is not whether the cryptography is sound today. It is whether the data is already sitting in someone else's archive.
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Intelligence and Geopolitics
Open source is not the same as unfiltered
The volume problem in open-source work is a collection-design problem. Most of what fails in OSINT fails at the requirement stage, before anyone has looked at a source.
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AI and Emerging Technology
When a small language model is the correct answer
Narrow task, controlled information environment, defined risk tolerance. Where all three hold, a smaller model is usually easier to govern and easier to defend.
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