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Taggart's thoughts on technology, AI, learning, and society.

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Everyone Is Lying To You For Money

https://taggart-tech.com/lying/

Published: September 14, 2026 00:00

The recent cyber incidents required a pivot from the frontier AI labs. The pivot? Lie and distract.

Shiny, Sharp Objects

https://taggart-tech.com/sharp-objects/

Published: July 27, 2026 00:00

We've built yet another tantalizing, dangerous thing. Are we capable of protecting ourselves from it?

Community Computing: The Future We Deserve?

https://taggart-tech.com/coop/

Published: July 1, 2026 00:00

Tech companies keep making us embarrassed to be their customers. Maybe we don't have to live like that.

GenAI: Ban vs. Regulate

https://taggart-tech.com/ai-debate/

Published: June 4, 2026 00:00

The ban-vs-regulate debate form is tried and true. Let's apply the form to AI and see what we actually care about.

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

Published: March 30, 2026 00:00

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

California's Age Assurance Lacuna

https://taggart-tech.com/ab-1043/

Published: March 3, 2026 00:00

California's Digital Age Assurance Act presents new headaches and concerns for operating system maintainers and app developers. But is it the catastrophe some claim?

Control

https://taggart-tech.com/control/

Published: February 20, 2026 00:00

Ultimately, the cloud and AI industries are about robbing you of computing power and selling it back at exorbitant rents.

Goodbye, Goodbye, Hello

https://taggart-tech.com/tti-migration/

Published: February 11, 2026 00:00

To build the future, you must destroy the present. TTI is leaving Teachable and Discord. Here's why and how.

Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web

https://taggart-tech.com/ringspace/

Published: December 17, 2025 00:00

For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.

The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy

https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt3/

Published: November 21, 2025 00:00

Mozilla's new strategy document confirms their position, and the end of their stewardship of the open web.

TOAD Attacks via Entra Guest Invites

https://taggart-tech.com/entra-toad/

Published: November 14, 2025 00:00

A new reverse phishing campaign uses Microsoft Entra Guest invites to bypass email filters.

On Wheels and Reinvention

https://taggart-tech.com/reinventing-wheels/

Published: September 4, 2025 00:00

Building the same thing close-to-home can be the right choice for your project, even if it feels like reinventing the wheel.

Announcing The Homelab Almanac: Version 3.0

https://taggart-tech.com/thav3/

Published: June 6, 2025 00:00

The best guide to homelabs just got a lot better—and bigger.

For Mom, One Year Later

https://taggart-tech.com/mom/

Published: May 31, 2025 00:00

It's been a year since my mother passed away. I wrote her eulogy, and I'd like to share it with you so she is remembered.

Evil Deno: Abusing the Nicest JavaScript Runtime

https://taggart-tech.com/evildeno/

Published: May 5, 2025 00:00

Deno offers a wonderful developer experience for those who work in the Node ecosystem. Turns out, it also offers a great deal for offensive security researchers—and the bad guys.

How and Why to Ditch GitHub

https://taggart-tech.com/migrate-to-codeberg/

Published: March 31, 2025 00:00

How much of your code do you feel like entrusting to Microsoft? How about American data centers? Here's an easy way to jump ship and maintain operations.

The Mozilla Cycle, Part I

https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt1/

Published: February 27, 2025 00:00

For decades, Mozilla and the open source community have been thick as thieves. Recent events call that relationship into question.

Your Private Wireguard Network from Scratch

https://taggart-tech.com/wireguard/

Published: January 30, 2025 00:00

Let's learn how to set up our own private network for secure self-hosted services.

Announcing The Homelab Almanac, v2.0.0

https://taggart-tech.com/tha-v2/

Published: May 10, 2024 00:00

Stability, refinement, and depth. The same Almanac, but better.

Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

https://taggart-tech.com/ai-llms/

Published: April 13, 2023 00:00

LLMs are scary, but not for the reasons you've been told.

Interrogating Bias in Incident Response

https://taggart-tech.com/incident-bias/

Published: November 3, 2022 00:00

When you're trying to catch the bad guys, you can't let your own brain stand in the way.

Quasar: Compromising Electron Apps

https://taggart-tech.com/quasar-electron/

Published: September 6, 2022 00:00

We've all heard how insecure Electron apps are. Here's a way to make that easy to demonstrate.

Chrome Extensions for Post Exploitation

https://taggart-tech.com/chrome-extensions/

Published: July 18, 2022 00:00

You've landed an implant on a low-priv endpoint. Instead of trying to dump LSASS, watch how SSO environments can be used against themselves.

On Learning and Fear

https://taggart-tech.com/fear-teacher/

Published: December 23, 2021 00:00

Safety and risk are not mutually exclusive. But nevertheless, I firmly believe you can't truly learn without a support system.

Do I Need a Degree to be Successful in Tech?

https://taggart-tech.com/cybersecurity-degrees/

Published: September 5, 2021 00:00

Ask five tech professionals about the usefulness of degrees, you'll get eight opinions. Let's cut through the hot takes and figure this out.

What a Teacher Wants InfoSec To Know, Pt. 3: Constructing Knowledge

https://taggart-tech.com/teacher-infosec-3/

Published: February 21, 2021 00:00

We are responsible for building our own domains of knowledge, but how does it work?

What A Teacher Wants InfoSec to Know, Pt. 2: The Zone

https://taggart-tech.com/teacher-infosec-2/

Published: January 9, 2021 00:00

Time to drop a little education theory, starting with Lev Vygotsky and the Zone of Proximal Development.

What a Teacher Wants InfoSec To Know, Pt. 1: Safety

https://taggart-tech.com/teacher-infosec-1/

Published: January 4, 2021 00:00

I would like to tell you this post is not inspired by Bean Dad. That's mostly true, although I'd be lying if I said he wasn't the inciting incident