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Latest debriefings, publications, and educational material drawn from our active research and studies.

2026-06-14

Cartography as Practice

On treating the public internet as a single, continuously shifting subject — and the discipline that follows from doing so.

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2026-06-02

The Relational Record of the Internet

Why we hold our collection as a graph of entities and relationships rather than a flat list of observations.

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2026-05-20

On Longitudinal Observation

A snapshot is a moment; a record is a position. Notes on the practical difference, and why it changes the kind of question that can be answered.

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2026-05-04

Attribution at Scale

Clustering, pivoting, and the limits of inference when the adversary owns the operational tempo.

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2026-04-18

Observing the Edge

The global edge is heterogenous, noisy, and indifferent to your inventory. A short essay on what continuous observation actually looks like.

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2026-04-02

Naming the Unnamed

Bringing structure to the parts of the internet that do not advertise themselves. On unindexed infrastructure and the question of provenance.

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2026-03-21

Routing as Evidence

What autonomous-system behaviour tells us — and does not tell us — about the operators behind it.

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2026-03-05

Time as a Dimension

On treating time as a first-class axis of the dataset rather than a metadata column. Some of the better questions only resolve in motion.

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2026-02-17

The Shape of an Incident

Incidents have geometry. Notes from years of watching the same patterns recur across different actors, different sectors, and different decades.

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