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SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange

<p>Security Adviser. Architect. Technical Auditor. Speaker. Author.<br />

I specialise in organisational and operational security. I help people do better. 

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Posts

  • Post #1501138

    RE: https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/116399482954754093 Can I bring your attention to one of the best security write-ups I’ve read in a long while. Bravo, Davi. @mttaggart@infosec.exchange flagged this one to me.

  • Post #1495170

    Good lord, I hate security conferences these days. Save me.

  • Post #1486387

    I’ve just witnessed a horrific LinkedIn trend in person. There’s an increasing contingent of cultists saying: “We should refer to the field of IT as ‘AI’ because that’s what the future is” I’m not sure what podcast they heard it on, but some guy just said to me: “You work in AI, don’t you?” Um… no? Security and IT “Yeah, AI” This person made a choice to attend a major tech conference and be this stupid. Stop the planet, I’m disembarking.

  • Post #1379702

    I’m at ‘just typed the time into a search engine’ levels of tired.

  • Post #1379701

    Folks in the UK reading this like “where do I sign up for cheap rail travel?!”

  • Post #1379698

    Gonna defrag this SSD to make sure the transistors are aligned.

  • Post #1379697

    Spent 30 minutes trying to get Lords of the Fallen updated to 2.5 yesterday. Turns out they remade the game with the same name, basically the same theme and environments 9 years later, and just didn’t say anything. Purchased now, but feeling a bit silly.

  • Post #1379696

    Ok. Put a good shift into Lords of the Fallen (2023). I’m about 7 or 8 bosses deep. It’s really good. I’m a big Soulsborne fan, I’ve finished pretty much every FROM game made, even their other franchises, and this is probably as close to it as you’re going to get to that Dark Souls feeling. Has some interesting mechanics, like your first death not being ‘final’, but results in an increasingly hostile world until recovery, and switching between the current and a darker, more decayed version of...

  • Post #1248069

    I’m just a boy standing in front of any Microsoft management portal asking it not to show me the fucking welcome tour any time I sign in, regardless of whether I’ve completed it or not.

  • Post #1172172

    Colleagues asking for opinion on absolutely any vendor: &quot;Do you trust...&quot; No.

  • Post #1166234

    It’s international test your backups day! Go test your backups, don’t just check they exist. Do they restore? Is the RPO expected? Do they reintegrate? Is data integrity preserved? HA is not BCDR. You’ve been warned.

  • Post #1043434

    Daylight savings time is getting in the way of me quickly calibrating my nuclear war clock today. Usually it doesn’t matter, but we’re on short notice lately.

  • Post #1043433

    Just getting ready to do a genocide.

  • Post #1043432

    Captain Climbdown appears to have done us a favour for once. No nukes tonight at least.

  • Post #966494

    How’s my echo chamber doing this fine evening?

  • Post #935887

    I really don’t care if your revenue stream goes down the toilet. Your business model was garbage to begin with. We had ‘Boom and Bust’ I think the new way is ‘Abuse and Bust’.

  • Post #935886

    There’s a point in Metal Gear Solid (PS1) that’s effect will be totally lost on modern audiences, which I think is a bit of a technical marvel. A wonder of fourth wall breaking. Most people know that Psycho Mantis was an interesting fight, with lots of fourth wall breaking points. Reading your memory card, moving your controller with vibration, swapping controller ports, and most people saw the screen with the word ‘Hideo’ in the top corner. On that last point, most people don’t understand wha...

  • Post #935885

    My wife always wonders how I’m a both a ‘morning person’ and a ‘night owl’. I remind her I start the day by washing amphetamines down with tea, and then continue this trend throughout the day.

  • Post #935884

    Been in a gaming slump lately. Picked up Voin on a whim. And it’s a real hidden gem. A solo developer, too. Such an achievement. It’s like Doom meets Skyrim meets Borderlands meets Dishonoured meets Dark Souls. A dungeon crawling, parkour exploration, loot farming, build crafting, parry/dodge murderfest. Bloody gorgeous too.

  • Post #935883

    Find myself just waiting on the Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon title screen as the song goes so hard.

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  • Post #819962

    Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18” Me: “My account is 23 years old” Valve: “That just proves your account is old” Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”

  • Post #783550

    We&amp;#39;re in good hands.

  • Post #783549

    I won’t be verifying that I’m over 18 on iOS 26.4, and as of yet, I haven’t seen any downside to not doing so. I do think this is going to backfire though. If it’s age restricted apps I can’t download, surely I’d just use the website instead. I hear that the intent is to utilise some sort of age verification flag, but I can’t see it being implemented at all. Put it this way… from 2016 to 2026, following GDPR mandates for handling visitors to websites only around 15% of public facing websites...

  • Post #783548

    @jerry just thinking through the inevitable nightmares inbound from UK, EU, and US age verification requirements for social media, where does this land us on Infosec.exchange? Early days I know, but curious on your thoughts.

  • Post #629010

    Love getting flagged by an AI service for using AI to plagiarise coursework. They quote a reference on a AI slop outlet site which scraped the content from another source. That source was…. Meeeeeeee Currently arguing with their submissions team.

  • Post #466010

    I’ve been really burned out of modern gaming for a few years now. Sure there’s the odd gem, but there’s a good reason I’ve not been compelled to upgrade my 1080Ti. Arguably the best consumer GPU card ever released, turning 9 years old this month. I’ve been drawn to older, more polished, more mechanically sound games, entirely unphased by the allure of raytracing and more Ks to the screen. This isn’t nostalgia talking. Looking back you can see key points where the artistry and passion of it all...

  • Post #415138

    In a ditch or abandoned at the side of the road. Day 1. Depending on deployment numbers. Almost certainly by week 2. Just you wait. These people have no clue what car combat awaits an unattended car on UK roads. It’s bad enough in the US. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2drw12z51o?at_medium=RSS&amp;amp;at_campaign=rss

  • Post #388948

    IP stealing machine gets its IP stolen by IP stealing machine. Cries foul play. https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/anthropic-says-chinese-ai-firms-used-16.html

  • Post #362786

    Up your CTI game by knowing the correct threat actor names for executive briefings. Security isn’t about being right, it’s about being accurate, after all: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gayint-name-converter/ Courtesy of @gayint@infosec.exchange #threatintel #cti #security #cybersecurity