Human-layer security
How people identify risk, establish boundaries, and protect themselves and their communities.
Pink Team publishes observations, briefings, essays, and field notes about the human side of security.
Our work focuses on the places where people, not systems, become the primary attack surface.
How people identify risk, establish boundaries, and protect themselves and their communities.
Trust, credibility, social proof, and the ways they can be manipulated.
The hidden work required to remain safe, visible, and economically resilient on platforms that can change the rules overnight.
How groups share knowledge, vet risk, and protect one another. From group chats to whisper networks.
New forms of social engineering, AI-enabled persuasion, impersonation, and coercion at scale.
Period-tracking, fertility, reproductive health, care, and wellness platforms hold intimate information about people's bodies and lives. In the current political climate, that data is not just personal. It can become social, legal, political, and physical risk.
Pink Team is interested in how women-led and care-centered companies can be red teamed by people who understand not only technical vulnerabilities, but also the human consequences of exposure, coercion, surveillance, and misuse.
As AI becomes more capable, the human layer becomes more important, not less.
The next generation of security challenges will involve persuasion, trust, reputation, identity, relationships, and influence at unprecedented scale. Pink Team exists to understand that terrain.