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What OPSEC actually is, where it came from, and why AI makes the basics lethal. Two infamous failures diagnosed through the five-step framework.
Show Notes
Everyone talks about “OPSEC fails.” But what is OPSEC, actually? Not the buzzword. There’s a defined discipline behind it.
In this episode we cover:
- The 1966 Vietnam War origin story that created OPSEC as a discipline
- The five-step framework and how to actually run it
- Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road: identity compartmentalization failure
- The 2025 Signal group chat: channel verification failure
- Why AI collapses the cost of observation to zero
Links
- NSA Purple Dragon declassified history
- NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 — Cyber Resiliency
- ODNI NCSC Operations Security overview
- Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens — Krebs on Security
Song of the Week
Run Through the Jungle — Creedence Clearwater Revival