Writing on init 6

Day-Zero Normal

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote a CISO field brief. It’s called The Day-Zero Normal, and it exists because the AI-and-security conversation has split into two useless camps: the doom crowd writing thousand-word threads about extinction, and the “it’s just cyber kicking up another storm” crowd waving it off. Neither helps you on Monday morning.

Twenty-five years on the offensive side of this business taught me what actually shifts a program. This brief is what I’d hand a CISO who has a board meeting next week and a budget cycle next quarter.

What is init6.com?

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every Linux admin knows what init 6 does. Reboot.

I bought this domain because of a joke played on me when I was learning how hacking worked. Someone told me to init 6 a production box and I did. The mistake stuck. Years later I keep returning to the metaphor. Our industry runs on stale memory and hanging processes: old playbooks, old reflexes, old defenses patched the same way every time. A lot of it is ready for a reboot.