The Man in the Middle: The Cyber Threat That Never Went Away

Why MITM Is Still Terrifying After All These Years MITM is simple, elegant and devastating. When the attacker positions themselves between two systems, two devices or two people, they can intercept the entire conversation without raising suspicion. A good MITM setup can: read encrypted traffic harvest credentials clone sessions inject rogue commands rewrite packets spoof … Read more

The Hollywood Script Engine I Wanted to Pitch to Spielberg

A metadata-driven production system Hollywood eventually built 15 years later This one makes me laugh, because it sits right at the strange intersection between imagination, systems thinking, and total naïveté. In the mid-90s, I honestly thought about pitching this idea to Spielberg. Not joking. Spielberg.And the funny thing is… it actually would’ve been useful. Back … Read more

The Global Weather Grid I Dreamed Up in the Early 90s

A voxel-based forecasting model years before AI and supercomputers caught up Here’s one of those ideas I had that, at the time, felt so obvious I assumed everyone else had already built it. Spoiler; they hadn’t. Back in the early 90s, same development-fueled enthusiasm, I had this notion that the world’s weather could be modeled … Read more

The WWII Database That Accidentally Exposed Hidden History

How a simple student project became a prototype for modern intelligence analysis Back in the early 90s, long before the words “big data” or “AI-assisted forensics” meant anything, I found myself building what I thought was a simple little database for a friend doing her Masters in Education. Nothing dramatic, nothing earth-shaking. The brief was … Read more

A Walk Through the Wild Early Days of the Web

A Walk Through the Wild Early Days of the Web Every now and then I’m reminded just how far we’ve come in the world of computing, coding, and web design. And I’ll be honest, there’s a strange kind of joy in looking back at the things we had to deal with in those early days… … Read more