Archive - Mark

The Hidden Tax: Finding Cloud Waste in Federal Infrastructure

Jun 13 • Mark

May 2026

We're handing off big ideas and make-or-break decisions. And just --dangerously-skip[ing]-permissions

May 11 • Mark

Federal agencies are spending real money on AI without asking the basic questions. The result: expensive tools layered on broken processes.

May 8 • Mark

The Certificate Warning Nobody Reads

Federal IT security theater: how certificate click-throughs became compliance artifacts that protect auditors, not systems.

May 8 • Mark

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