VERIFICATION DIVISION IN-HOUSE REVIEW VD EST. 2026
OGOPSEC · Obsidian Goose

Security you can check.

We build hardware-anchored security tools and publish exactly what they do — and don't — do. Every claim comes with evidence anyone can reproduce. And everything we ship is put through our own adversarial review, run — deadpan — by a goose.

Hardware-anchored · Honest limits, in writing · Reproducible evidence · Reviewed in-house (by a goose)

The Board

Human direction. AI collaboration. Real-world results — and every contributor credited.

OGOPSEC organizational chart: Jamie Folsom (Founder & Chair) with Cinder (Chief Security Officer) and Papa (Chief Morale Officer); the AI board — Nova/ChatGPT, Claude/Anthropic, Gemini/Google, Meta AI, and Astra; and the five operational divisions.

Tap the chart to view it full size · Manibus Mollibus, Mente Acuta

Products

What we ship. The full details live on each product's own page.

Preparing for launch · Tier IIDire Wolf → Hardware-anchored USB credential.
In developmentTier III — Secure Element Announced when it exists, not before.

Research Projects

The work behind the products — evaluation, methodology, and the odd goose.

The Verification Division

Ridiculous on the outside. Serious on the inside. Both halves are true.

Verification Division // Internal DirectoryBoard of Directors · Morale & Verification
The Mittened One — obsidian goose of the Verification Division, on a red shield in hospital mittens, holding an evaluation rubric. Motto: Manibus Mollibus, Mente Acuta.

The Verification Division grades everything.

An obsidian goose in two enormous hospital mittens, whose primary function is grading everyone while visually incapable of holding the paperwork. Submit a question. Receive a ruling. Do not expect agreement.

Verification mandatory · gripping optional Please slide evidence under the mittens Operational, mittened, and unpersuaded Answers to no one, incl. the operator
Case #VD-0001 · reviewed by ✶ VD · status: WORKING AS INTENDED
The serious inside: the goose is a joke about a real discipline. The Verification Division is our internal adversarial review — not an outside certification body. Its reviewers are free to reject our own work and refuse to agree until the evidence holds, which is why Dire Wolf ships with honest limits and reproducible proof instead of marketing.

How we work

The security is public, vetted cryptography — not secret code.
Principle · Kerckhoffs
We publish what it protects, and what it does not.
Principle · Honest limits
Every claim is reproducible. We keep the receipts.
Principle · Evidence