Brandon Karpf
A Discipline of Seeing
I write what I know and what I want to learn.
Weekly. 75 pieces in the archive. Each one argues a thesis I would defend in a boardroom and shows the analytical work that got there.
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11-minute read
The Lethality Certificate
The Naval Academy's Acting Provost explains the new curriculum, shipmates.
7-minute read
You Break It, You Buy It
They build the risk, they sell the cure, and nobody makes them pay for the damages.
2-minute read
You can't evict your way out of the internet.
Source: The CyberWire Special Edition
1-minute read
Google Earth's fake-image button lasted a day. The trust problem lasts a lot longer.
Source: T-Minus Space-Cyber Briefing
9-minute read
Change the A
Twenty-six ISACs share what they see. None is chartered to act on it.
8-minute read
If Dogs Invented Humans
Orthogonal, Part 3 of 3. We built a mind that changes questions. My dog explains what that means for the rest of us.
9-minute read
The Second Symmetry
Orthogonal, Part 2 of 3. An AI proves it can think orthogonally by breaking an encryption scheme.
10-minute read
See What You Can Do With This
Orthogonal, Part 1 of 3. A chemist rebuilt a cipher machine he’d never seen, because an operator was too tired to reset his.
8-minute read
Section 1604
Digital privateers have been operating since at least 2011. We need a coordination framework.
1-minute read
State of the router.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
8-minute read
Three Hands, One Room
A private company, a police force, and a military reach into the same machines to run the same Disrupt Doctrine. None has to tell the others.
6-minute read
Permission to Break In
Allies are legalizing their reach into foreign machines faster than they can coordinate it.
1-minute read
Navigating the GPS threat landscape
Source: T-Minus Space-Cyber Briefing
12-minute read
The National Reflex
The internet has no borders. Our defense of it has nothing but.
1-minute read
GPS has no backup, and the jamming just moved to orbit. (Source: T-Minus Space-Cyber Briefing)
Brandon joins T-Minus to break down new evidence that GPS jamming has moved from cheap ground devices into space, and to argue that position, navigation, and timing is critical infrastructure with no resilient fallback.
5-minute read
The $1,000 Quote and the $50 Fix
A furnace, a fog lamp, and the tax you never knew you were paying.
11-minute read
The Backup Was Always a Clock
GPS has no fallback, the program to upgrade it just collapsed, and the most credible replacement is a clock the Royal Navy bolted into a robot submarine.
10-minute read
Which One Is Right?
Part 3 of 3. Nine states on the board, seven trades, and the two clean-looking calls fall apart. Tokyo is choosing this quarter.
4-minute read
Everybody's Racing to Orbit. Nobody's Funding the Radio.
A single GPU needs a fire hydrant of bandwidth to reach its neighbor. The best satellite link flying today is a garden hose.
8-minute read
Moscow Built It First
Part 2 of 3. Russia confirmed it the other week. China has confirmed it for a year. North Korea refuses to.
4-minute read
Eleven Years to the Minute.
I went to watch the Class of 2026 commission. I ended up back in my own choker whites.
7-minute read
Two Sentences on Telegram
Part 1 of 3. Iran ordered its cyber proxy to stand down, in public, on a feed anyone could read.
1-minute read
Japan stops sitting out the cyber fight.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
1-minute read
Japan leans in to the cyber fight. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
Brandon joins CyberWire Daily to examine Japan's pivot from cyber isolationism to active defense, and to reframe space security as a question of critical infrastructure interdependence.
9-minute read
The First Island Kill Chain
A hundred miles from Taiwan, three flags rehearse an integrated missile salvo, anchored by Japan.
8-minute read
The Mythos Deferral
We (re)invented a governance vehicle last week. Its name is the Concert.
12-minute read
Who's Minding the Store?
The case for rebuilding CISA as America's cyber defense protocol.
15-minute read
The Monks and the Machine
AI can replicate what took the NSA decades to build. The correct response is gratitude.
1-minute read
War comes for the cloud.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast.
11-minute read
The Empty Seatback Pocket
A belated eulogy for the seatback pocket, the Brookstone massage chair, and the 147-pound garden yeti.
15-minute read
The Quiet Rearmament
How Japan re-armed itself with generational patience and $275 billion.
2-minute read
Your Board Deserves a Number
Like a toddler with his favorite crayon, we’ve been answering the most important question in cybersecurity with a color.
12-minute read
The Gardens of Kyoto
The relationship between human intention and the natural world.
17-minute read
Spaceballs the Datacenter 2: The Search for More Bandwidth
I modeled five business cases for datacenters in orbit. Four died. Only one is feasible.
7-minute read
The Impossible Seat
How the military operation against Iran is stress-testing Japan's security architecture, with implications for China deterrence and the March 19 Trump-Takaichi summit.
1-minute read
The basics broke telecom.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast.
11-minute read
3D Printing Cyber: The AI Phase of Offense Industrialization
Amazon Threat Intelligence exposed an AI-augmented campaign that compressed the entire cyber offense supply chain into one workstation. The factory built a 3D printer.
10-minute read
IOCs Are Dead. Long Live IOCs.
Ninety percent of C2 servers die in five days. The average threat intel indicator arrives 33 days late. The IOC economy is collapsing. What replaces it?
2-minute read
Spaceballs the Datacenter!
Why Musk's xAI-SpaceX Datacenter in Space is Bullshit
1-minute read
When encryption meets enforcement.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
11-minute read
Taiwan, Maneuver Warfare, and the Industrialization of Cyber Conflict
Imagine a naval warship in the open ocean.
8-minute read
The Business of Containment
Governing the Offensive Cyber Enterprise
3-minute read
The Savage Hue
Gratitude Against all Odds
1-minute read
Inside job interrupted.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
6-minute read
The Internet Keeps Crashing Because We Tried to Gentrify a Jungle
The Internet Keeps Crashing Because We Tried to Gentrify a Jungle
9-minute read
The AI Has Eaten the Pen
You people are driving me nuts.
2-minute read
The First Agentic Cyberattack Is Here
It’s A Liar. That's An Opportunity.
2-minute read
The Shutdown Ends Tonight. CISA Renewal Still Won't Move.
The House votes around 7 PM tonight (November 12) to end the longest government shutdown in American history.
1-minute read
UKSA adds to its space tracking capabilities.
Source: T-Minus Space Daily
1-minute read
How many anti-satellite weapons are currently in orbit?
Source: T-Minus Space Daily Podcast
1-minute read
The November that never ended.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
1-minute read
Listening In on the listeners.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
1-minute read
Rocket Lab boosts semiconductor manufacturing.
Source: T-Minus Space Daily Podcast
1-minute read
A free speech showdown.
Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast
1-minute read
A dark web titan falls. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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Darknet drug marketplace closed for business. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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1-minute read
Brute force and broken trust. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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1-minute read
Cracked and Nulled taken down. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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1-minute read
Hacking the bureau. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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Future-proofing finance: FS-ISAC’s blueprint for cryptographic agility. (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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1-minute read
When AI goes offline. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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Digital Mindhunters: a novel look at cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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Mission possible? Navigating tech adoption in the DoD. (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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Steve Blank, national security, and the dilemma of technology disruption. (Part 2 of 2) (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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Steve Blank, national security, and the dilemma of technology disruption. (Part 1 of 2) (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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The playbook for outpacing China. (Source: CyberWire Research Saturday)
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The impact of CISO Circles and cultivating a security culture. (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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From secret chats to public spats. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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Quantum-proof and ready: NIST unveils the future of encryption. (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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Cybersecurity on the ballot. (Source: The CyberWire Daily Podcast)
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1-minute read
Streamlining the US Navy's innovation process: A conversation with Acting CTO Justin Fanelli. (Source: CyberWire Special Edition)
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1-minute read
Cybersecurity and Space with Brandon Karpf (Source: Inter Astra)
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1-minute read
House Armed Services Committee concerned with state of Navy cyber readiness (Source: FedScoop)
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Rethinking Navy Manpower In Light of the COVID-19 Response (Source: USNI Blog)
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Train Navy Officers for Cyber Lethality (Source: USNI Proceedings)
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