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Casey Ellis

Casey Ellis

Hacker, founder, advisor, and pioneer of crowdsourced security. Founder of Bugcrowd, co-founder of disclose.io, principal of Tall Poppy Group. Board member at SRLDF.

Building

Whatever Your Hand Finds to Do

Image via Wikipedia Here’s the thing… I would describe myself as someone who is continually pregnant with the plans and dreams and hopes

28 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
leadership

Keeping the Lights On

I’ve had moments over the past months, just like most other people I know, where I’ve “looked down” (i.e. think of

27 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
Building

Sticking with Plan A

Quick thought… I’m the kind of person who is very quick to start working out contingency plans if a dream, goal, task or

27 Jan 2010 · 1 min read
Building

Picking an Idea

I often talk to people that are absolutely chomping at the bit to start their own business, and the number one pre-startup question

25 Jan 2010 · 3 min read
Hot Takes

The Coin in the Mouth of the Fish

Matthew 17: 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’

24 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
Thinking

Just Clearing Something up here... Nicotine Replacement Therapy

I’ve had a few funny responses from people I know personally to my Goals for 2010 post along the lines of: “Great goals

21 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
Security

More on Skimming in Australia – Now an Official Epidemic

It turns out that a large percentage of recent fraud is being traced back to a single type of PIN pad: the Ingenico PX328.

21 Jan 2010 · 3 min read
Building

Skype Controls 12% of All International Calls

This is a repost from http://www.strategyeye.com/articles/digitalmedia/id/24649416. Interesting to watch this progress – the take-up of anti-monopoly

19 Jan 2010 · 1 min read
Security

What Are You Really Sharing

I’ve noticed a lot of people putting up quizzes on Facebook lately, I did one of my own as well (although I can’

17 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
Hot Takes

Race Relations — a Bloody Past

I just read a news article that has left me pretty unsettled… http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/aborigines-have-worst-life-expectancy-

14 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
Building

umm, Excuse me… you’re Sitting on a goldmine.

I define the fundamental essence of business as this: Connecting low yield solutions to a high yield problems. In simpler terms, find something that

13 Jan 2010 · 2 min read
Thinking

Goals for 2010

I only ever set 5 goals as a New Years thing… More than that and I get distracted. These goals ultimately spawn a list

30 Dec 2009 · 1 min read