July Update
Friends and Readers,
Thank you to those who have signed up since my last update. I have relocated to Austin and am hitting the ground running. Please share if you know of anyone who would be interested.
Last month I was fortunate enough to present my Harvard Policy Analysis Exercise “A Cognitive Security Verification Framework” at BSides San Antonio, a cybersecurity conference.
Podcast - SenTe with David
In case you would prefer the articles in spoken form rather than written, I’ve started giving a rundown of my pieces and will post them on your podcast platform of choice - It’s a work in progress and I’m smoothing out the rougher edges with each iteration. Feel free to follow and share.
Writing Roll-Up
Broad Policy Articles:
Loose Lips Sink Ships- AI and Inference Risks
Seemingly harmless comments can reveal sensitive information when combined with other public or private clues. AI makes this recombination faster, allowing adversaries to reconstruct secrets without accessing any single classified document. Organizations should act according to principles of paranoid secrecy which were established as far back as WW2. Substack.Moving Up the Abstraction Ladder
Software development has progressed from machine code to higher-level languages that let people accomplish more without managing every technical detail. LLM coding agents represent a continuation of this long-time trend, translating ordinary language into software and giving users greater agency over complex systems. Substack.
SenTe Focused Articles:
What Does a Similarity Leak Look Like?
A similarity leak occurs when sensitive information is exposed through a paraphrase, translation, summary, or closely related expression rather than an exact textual match. Traditional filters may miss it because the words have changed even though the underlying meaning remains the same. Substack.Why We Named it Joseki.
In Go, a joseki is a reusable sequence of moves that works only when applied with an understanding of the broader game. The name reflects our belief that AI instructions and wrappers should be reusable and portable, but always evaluated within their surrounding context. Substack.
On Request:
Prototype testing of the Moyo information space mapper. Find leaks of your secrets (classified, proprietary, personal) in public LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, Kimi, Grok, etc).
SenTeGuard Pilot - protect yourself or your organization from leakage of valuable information through air-gap capable semantic guardrails. Substack
Let’s Talk:
Private - How can your organization more effectively secure your secrets in the LLM era through implementation of the Cognitive Security Verification Framework (CSVF) and by other means.
Public - How to craft tech-positive, pro-future, big-tech skeptical market-oriented policies of abundance in the LLM era.
David