Field notes
Writing from inside the phone.
Notes on mobile interiors, exploitation classes, and platform internals — written by the Foundry and the wider Cartographer bench.
- 01
The allocator moves. Your map should too.
Userspace allocators keep quietly rearranging their invariants. The distance between last year's assumption and today's terrain is exactly the space implants prefer to occupy.
2026 · 04→ - 02
Pointer authentication, and the corners it didn't reach.
Signed pointers were the big story of the last five years. The story of the next five is the corners they never covered.
2026 · 02→ - 03
Reading the developer preview.
Why defenders should study the developer channel for undocumented security machinery — and how to do it without shipping a beta anywhere near the field.
2025 · 11→
Also in circulation
Working drafts and shorter reads.
- 01A season of previews
- 02Do handsets and desktops actually keep converging?
- 03New release, new vocabulary