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Austin Baker@BakedSec

"The nation-state supply chain plot was foiled, not by the NSA or FBI, but Steve from the build team when his test build process took 837ms instead of 214ms like it always had." It's Mission Impossible, but with a firmware engineer to hunt down the upstream latency root cause.

3.1K likes11 repliesPosted Mar 30, 2024

View the original on X Written by Austin Baker. Captured Sep 4, 2026.

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Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Opens on a negative, which reads as a warning and is harder to ignore than a claim.
Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: plain, matter-of-fact
Written for: Engineers and technical teams

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