I once tried to assemble IKEA furniture this week without looking at the instructions. Got halfway through before realising I'd built something structurally sound but utterly useless. Feels like a decent metaphor for most security programmes. America Discovers It Doesn't Make Routers Anymore The US just banned foreign-made routers because malicious actors kept using them … Continue reading Breach of Confidence: 3 April 2026 →

I am currently recovering from minor surgery... but nothing in surgery is minor as I struggle to move and need assistance with pretty much everything. Thanksfully I am on painkillers. Not the glamorous sort that inspire a new Operating System or terrible life choices in Las Vegas, but enough to leave me staring at the … Continue reading 7 Reasons Kids Are Overrated Until Suddenly They’re Your Entire Support Infrastructure →

I've been watching my phone battery go to 37% lately and it's giving me anxiety even though I know I can make it through the day. This is why I don't think I'll ever be able to live with an electric car. The Scanner That Scanned Itself Trivy, the widely used security scanner that's been … Continue reading Breach of Confidence – 27 March 2026 →

In 1966, an MIT computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum built a chatbot called ELIZA. It was extremely simple by today's standards which simply rephrased whatever you typed as a question.  Tell it "my boyfriend made me come here" and it would respond "your boyfriend made you come here?" It was nothing more than a party … Continue reading When Your Best Friend Is a Bot Who Never Says No →

I'm in Antwerp, Belgium to attend CyberNova. European travel is nice. As my friend Erich says, "you fall over in Europe and land in another country" which isn't wrong. It takes me longer to get to the airport than the flight over to Brussels. Although, ever since Brexit, it pains me every time we can't … Continue reading The Tut of Superiority →

Note: I wrote a similar title for a blog post I was writing at work, but some of the kids thought no-one would get the reference (probably because they didn't and didn't want to look stupid). So if you get the reference, please let me know! Anyway, onto our regular scheduled show: I've tried minimisation, … Continue reading Digital Compartmentalisation: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Multiple Screens →

When I travel abroad, I become a different person. I find myself doing things i would never do at home.Last week I landed in Billund. It's small, Danish town, and home of Lego.The hotel was in Aarhus. Perfectly reasonable. Except getting there required taking a coach.A coach.At home, I would rather walk fifty miles through … Continue reading Travel-tinted glasses →

I was going to be click-baity and title this post, "what incident response taught me about mixing up airports", but honestly, looking at LinkedIn these days, I think the humour would be lost. I'd end up with 50 new followers (75 if I ended the post with the word, "Agree?" Let me walk you through … Continue reading Airport Incident Response →

There's a peculiar disease that infects children somewhere between the ages of six and twelve. It's not chickenpox or measles, though it spreads just as quickly through playgrounds and birthday parties. It's the chronic need to establish dominance through increasingly absurd claims of material superiority. "Our car goes faster than yours." "Well, our TV is … Continue reading The Art of One-Upmanship →

Dear British Airways, I saw your latest business class sale advert. Beautiful photography, tasteful fonts, the usual tasteful smattering of champagne, winglets and folded duvets. Very on brand. And yet, in a strange way, it completely misses the point. From the ad, one can only assume the principal desire of the modern traveller is to … Continue reading Why British Airways’ Business Class Ads Miss the Only Point That Matters →