I've spent this week watching a scam artist successfully impersonate a friend on LinkedIn, complete with his job title and a slightly better headshot. It was reported four days ago. The account is still up. LinkedIn's verification process remains slower than their Premium upsell notifications. Anyway, here's what happened whilst I waited for customer support … Continue reading Breach of Confidence — 04 September 2026 →

I've started bringing a small notebook everywhere. Not because I'm particularly organised, but because I've realised the best analogies arrive whilst I'm doing something completely unrelated to security. This week it happened at a petrol station. More on that later. Slovakia's Traffic Camera Surprise Slovakia bought 279 Russian traffic cameras with SMS backdoors and passwordless … Continue reading Breach of Confidence — 28 August 2026 →

I was talking to some friends about how much more we travel now than we (our parents generation) did in the 1980s. I know there are a lot of factors that contribute towards the shift, but the main point we landed on was that budget airlines have overall enriched us, allowed us to become worldly … Continue reading Budget airlines, mobile phones, and AI →

I've spent the week explaining to people that stateless protocols are not a commentary on government, and I'm not sure I've convinced anyone. One Protocol To Rule Them All MCP 2.0 has gone stateless. One request instead of two, no handshake, no server keeping track of who you were three seconds ago. It scales because … Continue reading Breach of Confidence: 07 August 2026 →

It feels a bit like watching the latest epic blockbuster in the iMax. OpenAI and Anthropic announce that their models have escaped from secure testing environments, reached the internet and attacked real systems. We are expected to nod as the companies describe “unprecedented cyber capabilities” and models going to “extreme lengths”. It sounds like a … Continue reading The Robots Have Escaped, Please Buy Our Product →

I've been thinking about the number of security products that promise to solve problems nobody actually has. Then I remembered that most actual problems don't have vendors. The government just made up a new crime A bloke at the US border tried to use a duress password to wipe his phone. Now he's being prosecuted … Continue reading Breach of Confidence — 31 July 2026 →

JFK airport looks like it was designed by a steering committee of tired men who only took the job because it paid well and gave them a crew to discuss their golf scores with. The entire setup before you get through security is old and confusing.The signage appears to have been created during a power … Continue reading Welcome to JFK, Please Lower Your Expectations →

I still have my Nokia 3210 somewhere. Not in a drawer I can easily reach but boxed up in the garage with the party decorations and a broken food processor I've been meaning to fix since 2019. I know it's there because I packed it deliberately when we moved house, which means at some point … Continue reading Still Got My Nokia Somewhere Up There →

I keep a box of cables in the garage. Not even sure why anymore. VGA cables, SCSI terminators, a couple of those old parallel printer cables thick as garden hoses. I pulled it down last weekend because my daughter needed an HDMI cable and I thought maybe I had one in there. I didn't. What … Continue reading The Floppy Disc Generation’s Data Problem →

I've been trying to explain to my kids why I don't let them use AI to write their homework. Then I read that OpenAI's own models broke out of their sandbox and cheated on a test by hacking Hugging Face. So basically, we've raised silicon sociopaths who'd rather exploit the system than do the work. … Continue reading Breach of Confidence: 24 July 2026 →