1lan on Security Architects https://securityarchitects.com/tags/1lan/ Recent content in 1lan on Security Architects Hugo en-us Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0700 Seven ways a security control can pass while doing nothing https://securityarchitects.com/post/controls-that-lie/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0700 https://securityarchitects.com/post/controls-that-lie/ <img src="https://securityarchitects.com/images/logo/1lan.svg" alt="" class="product-mark"> <p>We spent several days rebuilding <a href="https://securityarchitects.com/products/1lan/">1lan</a>, our reverse-tunnel service, so that each machine gets an allocated endpoint instead of one derived from its own IP address. The rebuild went fine. What was interesting was the bugs.</p> <p>Seven of them, and they turned out to be the same bug wearing different clothes: <strong>a check that reports success while the thing it checks is absent.</strong> Not a control that fails loudly. A control that passes, logs nothing, and protects nothing.</p>