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Why I'm Leaving Facebook
TLDR;
Social data is being weaponised, and I'll have no more to do with it
What has happened?
Last night Channel 4 aired a documentary showing the inner workings of the social media influence platform Cambridge Analytica. If you have 20 minuets to spare I suggest you go and give …
Site migration
So after a few years of neglect, I realised that I only ever come on here to update Wordpress, and with the recent remote code exec vulnerability doing the rounds, I figured it was time to move over to a nice static site with absolutly zero dyanmic content for the …
Watch out for wireless technologies
This is a cross post of a blog article I wrote at xiphosresearch.com
Common risk assessment blind spots
Wireless technologies have become commonplace in the last few decades, everything with a battery seems to have an IP stack and an antenna. Ubiquitous connectivity allows us access to the whole …
Nostalgia
I'll preface this post with a warning that it is 99% technical content-free. If you want to follow me on a trip down memory lane to the early 90's then grab your walkman, put on your shell suit and let's do this!
Let's have a drink
A friend who I …
The Method of Loci
In my earlier post I mentioned that I was studying for my
PA-DSS exam and that I was using a memory palace technique to commit the
standard to memory prior to the exam. I'll find out in a couple of weeks
whether it actually helped as the exam didn't actually …
My experience of San Francisco and the BSides SF conference
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I'm currently sat waiting to finish the PA-QSA course and take my exam. I should probably be studying a little more, but I've memorised the standard with a memory palace technique that I used for PCI-DSS so I …
Breakerfaire 21st August slides
Here are the slides that I used at the my Breakerfaire talk last night.
Breakerfaire Liverpool August 21st
Thanks to Mat for asking me to come and speak, and the great attendees that really made me feel welcome. Hopefully I'll be back again soon.
Hunting Zebras (or how a toothbrush made me feel dumb)
Anyone who follows me to Twitter will probably remember that I've had some issues with my Samsung Galaxy S2 ever since I upgraded from 2.6 Froyo to 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. There are many posts in forums all about the battery and stability issues that have plagued …
Bad password policies
Ever since I got my Yubikey I've been a big fan of making sure my many web application accounts are as secure as possible. Thanks to services like LastPass you can now keep up unique complex passwords on every account you own with very little extra effort.
So, in this …
