The Locksmith's Apprentice

A locksmith's apprentice installs a door with no lock. That's embarrassing. Now imagine the apprentice works for the company that invented the lock. That's what happened to my data. For eleven days. The Brain I run a self-hosted security operations center out of a 40ft fifth wheel RV. Fifty-plus Docker containers. Wazuh, CrowdSec, Suricata, Zeek, AdGuard, Grafana, Node-RED, Ghost... the whole stack. I manage all of it with a crew of AI stations running on Claude, Anthropic's model. I call it the