Been on radio silence here for a bit. Things are going well. I have finished up the first portion of my onboarding experience at Cisco and am now getting myself up to speed on the ways of Talos threat intelligence. All the people here are awesome. I am stoked.

Also, here’s someone who dropped by today to give me some hints on using Synapse.

Existing

I quit a job recently and started a new one. It was an act of surrender and of hope. Surrender because I had reached a point where I had fought to try to take control of my destiny at a company that, like many others, did not care about my dreams or feelings. Hope because I believed I could still grow somewhere else.

http://thepacketrat.com/2025/06/06/existing/

The Garden After the Burn

Another anonymously contributed post from one of our anonymously anonymous authors. Three months ago, I said it was time to admit how bad it’s gotten. I dragged the truth out into the daylight, bruised and blinking, for anyone still willing to look it in the eyes. I named the rot. I pointed at the collapse behind the curtains. I said the quiet part aloud because silence had begun to feel like complicity.

http://thepacketrat.com/2025/06/03/the-garden-after-the-burn/