Nobody Reads the Whole Internet
On AML, screening, and what it takes to check a person without ruining one.
I've been going deeper into security. In the last post I wrote about small tools for analysing applications: dependencies, reachable vulnerabilities, secrets left behind. That is the side of security everyone recognises. Find the hole, stop the leak, fail the pipeline before the problem ships.
But in day-to-day work I keep running into another kind of question. These are still security questions, and they are still solved with technology. Only the technology isn't an exploit or a firewall. It's information. Who is this person, according to the lists that matter? Is this name a match, or only a namesake? What should a system be allowed to decide alone?
This text is about that kind of security, and about what happens when you answer it wrong, with confidence. But before the lists, before the scores, before any...
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