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Token-Exhaustion Attacks: When Attention Becomes the Target
By Chris Blask · CYBR.SEC.Media
Frames narrative attacks as resource-exhaustion attacks against finite human and institutional attention, borrowing cybersecurity concepts such as amplification, rate limiting, and incident triage.
Argues that security gatherings restore shared professional context, relationships, and judgment—the human connective tissue that automated systems cannot replace.
Uses an agentic-security incident to argue that trustworthy AI depends on bounded authority, local custody, observable control planes, and recoverable evidence rather than model labels.
Above the Packet: Cybersecurity’s New Meaning Layer
By Chris Blask · CYBR.SEC.Media
Tracks how a software-safety idea moved from conversation to schema, validator, and standards alignment, arguing for a cybersecurity layer that preserves meaning, relationships, and evidence.
When Agents Knock: PACT, AI Browsers, and the Next Web Perimeter
By Chris Blask · CYBR.SEC.Media
Examines agentic web access as a new perimeter problem: how to distinguish legitimate delegated agents from abuse without turning a few token issuers into gatekeepers of the open web.
Explores trust as continuity confirmed through repeated, coherent return—linking human relationships, critical infrastructure, provenance, memory, and community correction in an AI age.
Attentive Human Confirmation: What “Human in the Loop” Actually Means
By Chris Blask · LinkedIn
Defines meaningful human-in-the-loop governance as attentive human authority at consequential decision boundaries, rather than ceremonial review after autonomous action.
Trust Is Not a Cloud Service: What Cybersecurity Can Learn from Local AI Stewards
By Chris Blask · CYBR.SEC.Media
Argues for locally governed AI stewards that preserve operational memory and context close to the work, with explicit boundaries for consent, privacy, retention, access, and human authority.
QuietWire’s founder reflects on a year of building local AI infrastructure around accountable memory, witness, human stewardship, and narrative integrity.
Narrative Integrity Risk: The Next Frontier in Financial Stability
By Chris Beall, Chris Blask, Jen Rosiere Reynolds · Lawfare
Argues that AI-amplified narrative manipulation is already a financial-stability and governance risk that belongs in C-suite and board-level risk management.
Mental Denial of Service: Narrative Malware and the Future of Resilience
By Chris Blask · Security Boulevard
Traces narrative malware from the Good Times hoax to modern cognitive attacks, arguing that manipulative content can consume attention and disrupt institutions without exploiting software.