Excellent, i’ faith; of the chameleon’s dish:I eat the air, promise-crammed.
- Hamlet ACT 3 SCENE 2

Quite possibly the most-understated security peril of present day computing, standards-based security and the cryptographic functions which support it has been stretched thin across an ever-growing spectrum of applications.
A disastrous combination - the built-in obsolescence of mass production and Moore’s [...]

The variety and severity of threats necessitates extreme caution on the part of the actor in any real-world system.
Whether the actor is operating in virtual or physical space, the following precepts apply:

Threat Assessment: Refer to Threat Assessment Overview.

Information Management: All information should be handled in the following order, as applicable:

Withheld
Encrypted
Obfuscated
Poisoned
Retracted

Relevant items of information:

Identity of actor
Identity [...]

After entirely too much time spent reading and worrying about the likes of phylum platyhelminthes and phylum nematoda, and phylum apicomplexa, I have begun making comparisons between the natural world (in which parasites often thrive) and the abstract man-made realms which have yet to enumerate or adequately model evolved organisms (which is not to say [...]