Minimise the burden. Optimise for balance. Interested in lots of things.
Joined December 2009
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Jun 10
I’ve had some junior folks say that they’re a bit intimidated to share their learning journeys in security because they weren’t sure if they had anything of value or new to share.
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Jun 10
Advice from someone whose been around a while…it’s your story, therefore it’s unique to you so share and be you.
Be bold and always be learning. Your value is you.
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Jun 9
I’ve been addicted to this tune for 31 years. Kinda scary how time flies.
It’s a go to for when I need a bit of energy to finish a task.
Blu Peter’s Magic.
youtu.be/BdR8ToCYhTc?si=PYeq…
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Jun 8
As soon as you stop addressing root causes and use technology as way to somehow be the magic bullet you’re on to a whole load of crockery.
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Jun 8
Mo, what security books are you currently reading? No security books until this is finished…
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May 28
When you’re researching and ponderising. You gotta treat yourself, always rescue the cookie.
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May 28
“Patching the human”
Another phrase we should not have in the industry.
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May 27
Nieces: You’re funny.
Me: Wait, are you laughing with me or at me.
Nieces: At you hahahaha!
Me: Grrr.
Pfff kids.
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May 25
Bank Holiday Monday Micro Project. Re-engineering a cream slice.
It should have had jam as a base layer for the cream sit to on. It did not. This is just not cricket. This needed to be fixed.
An emergency change was raised. No CAB, no regression plan. YOLO.
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May 25
You Augment your Intelligence with it, not outsource it all and expect magic.
Watch your technology seduction or your intelligence will be in reduction.
As always, be more discerning.
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May 23
You have to be careful in how to trust estate agents, recruitment agents, special agents and now AI agents.
Are they there to give you agency, support your existing agency or take it away from you.
The danger is when you believe you have agency but don’t.
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May 23
The best of luck to our Irish cousins @BSidesDublin with their event today.
Their Rookie track has been renamed to honour his memory, as the Thomas (@FVT) Fischer track, who we recently lost.
#BSides #Dublin #FVT #FuckCancer
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May 22
TL cleanse.
The story of Tunegirl, who made her Awakenings debut at 63.
weraveyou.com/2026/05/tunegi…
She’s awesome:
youtu.be/7n9r27Ptn6k?si=EGcS…
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We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.
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May 19
Just read that Peter Neumann has passed.
He was one of the first people I read about back in the day.
Here’s his page on the SRI site, it’s worth a peruse. Basically he was a don:
csl.sri.com/~neumann/
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May 19
This.
IMO 75% of security is largely theory.
On the ground, in the weeds, in most environments reality is entirely different.
People, process, technology is oft quoted but it’s about politics, personalities, trust and incentives that matters first.
'As we often discuss on the podcast, "patch faster" is the ultimate example of advice that is entirely correct in theory and utterly useless in practice without context. It’s like telling a drowning person to "breathe more air."' (another random Gemini joke)
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