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Online, at least Seriously Risky Business notes that in its latest move the US government is now issuing modern letters of marque.

Language choices doubly so The language used in financial markets is fascinating.

CycloneDX SBOM indexer Cyclops is a tool to ingest, index and search through CycloneDX SBOMs.

Learning without thinking is useless.

Prometheus/Dogstatsd compatible, minimalistic monitoring agent Gent is a simple application telemetry collector & exporter.

The AI bubble of 202x is waiting to pop With both of the big names (OpenAI & Anthropic) announcing their speedy IPO plans, the only sensible conclusion to draw is that the bubble is about to burst.

The zeroeth rule of thumb for infosec professionals You are not cynical enough.

Reading the tea leaves Listening to political winds and reading the tea leaves in the UK make one thing disturbingly clear.

Artificial Misanthropy A misanthrope is someone whose view of the world can be distilled into a simple sentence: "I hate people in general, and everyone in particular."

New hotness: Unvalidated Assumptions Vulnerability scanners, in the year 2025 - and the companies flogging them to unsuspecting customers victims - are defective by design.

Scribbling at $dayjob, again Some time ago (cough several months cough) I wrote a piece at work.

The global IT outage was only a matter of time Friday, 2024-07-19.

OSS project governance demands, distilled Hi, I'm from Entitled Inc.

Visions of future past Year is 2041.

Three steps to a life of success Be born to the right parents Nepo Coast

Things written in times past I used to write things for a previous employer's tech blog, but the old URLs may succumb to bitrot.

Dedicated to Cause UK government's refusal to negotiate with the NHS staff can only be taken as dedication to monarchy.

Audits explained A pentest is like going to the GP for a check-up.

Not your grandfather's MVC This was perfectly predictable.

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SSH (Yubi)Key Authentication SSH with private keys coming from secure hardware.

Be honest Planning to travel to visit your family in these plague-ridden times, you're really saying: "I miss my family so much they will see me if it's the last thing they do."

Page from an undated journal Daddy's crying.

Misunderstood Indexing Holding the number-one spot on Corruption Perceptions Index tells nothing about how well a country is doing.

Ground rules for acceptable ads online The following is an edit of a piece originally written in November 2015.