Shane Huntley

When hiking in the Alps Ödön von Horváth found a skeleton with rucksack attached. He opened the rucksack to find an addressed postcard: 'Having a wonderful time.'

Horváth's friends asked him what he did next.

'I posted it.'

I'm still tracking down broken things in various accounts from an international move over 2 years ago.

It's a classic, known question, but it still seems to check whether someone has some model of how all this stuff works.

You Will Eat the Bugs!

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

Fog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we’re sharing insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.

I am somewhat familiar with "actual facts" regarding that conflict. :)

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All jokes aside, I think cyber warfare would be tough as the baseline reliability of many critical IT systems isn't that great anyway.

Yes absolutely.

And don't get me started on people putting chocolate instead of raisins in hot cross buns these days.

Yeah, I appeared before the parliamentary intelligence committee raising concerns about that law when it was being debated...

I'd feel a lot more comfortable about this if "reasonable steps" was actually defined. Also if "social media" was defined.

How Australia passes super vague laws then leaves interpretation up to ministers or officials is actually pretty weird by global standards.

We are generally way too overconfident in understanding adversary intent.

Activity is straightforward, attribution is tricky and intent is often opaque and relies on organizational politics and bureacracy inside organizations.

Not sure why they called it “Threads” when Facebook+ was right there.

Sydney Harbour from Eastern Suburbs

My first 4th of July since leaving the US. Feeling a bit sad to miss the holiday but then I remembered I live here now:

I'm not grumpy, just Australian!