Making, Breaking, Learning, Fixing.https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/fauxx-maintaining-the-signal/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/fauxx-maintaining-the-signal/Three months and three releases after launching Fauxx, the most interesting work wasn't a new feature. It was the decisions I had to reverse. What maintaining an open-source privacy app actually teaches you.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalprivacyhttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/meridian-drift-audit-with-receipts/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/meridian-drift-audit-with-receipts/Meridian is live. A longitudinal record of how commercial LLMs drift on contested topics: what v0.1 runs, how it's defensible, and what each tier of funding unlocks.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalaitransparencyhttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/smudge-stop-trying-to-survive-the-codec/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/smudge-stop-trying-to-survive-the-codec/Adversarial face perturbation has spent five years trying to make perturbations survive video compression. That framing is the bug. Smudge points the SPECTER inversion at libx264 - use the quantizer as the amplifier, not the obstacle.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalsecurityaihttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/specter-hunting-ghosts-in-the-kv-cache/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/specter-hunting-ghosts-in-the-kv-cache/Two research domains have been studying KV cache attacks and quantization exploitation separately. SPECTER bridges the gap, testing whether crafted input tokens can exploit quantization boundaries in the KV cache to manipulate model behavior through normal inference.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalsecurityaihttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/signal-to-soil/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/signal-to-soil/From rural dial-up to city tech careers to building a forge on the same kind of land I spent my adolescence aching to leave.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalogessayhomesteadingblacksmithinghttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/phosphor-and-static/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/phosphor-and-static/On CRT glow, LAN parties, and the quality of attention we lost when technology stopped being strange enough to be magic.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalessayretro-techculturehttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/tin-cans-and-strings/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/tin-cans-and-strings/VoIP as a covert data exfiltration channel — encoding files as mFSK audio inside legitimate SIP/RTP calls.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalengineeringsecurityhttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/fauxx-cant-stop-the-signal/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/fauxx-cant-stop-the-signal/If you can't stop ad networks from collecting your data, make what they collect useless. Building Fauxx: an Android tool for behavioral data poisoning.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDigitalprivacyhttps://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/welcome-to-the-forge/https://blog.digitalgrease.dev/posts/welcome-to-the-forge/The inaugural post: what this blog is about and what to expect.Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTDigitalessay