After hearing "vulnerability" and "threat" used interchangeably for a >9,000th time I decided to do something about it, and the Bar Fight Risk Taxonomy was born.

Data is the new oil... It spills everywhere, trashes the environment, and is impossible to clean up. Think before you store.

"You've just found a bug on a company's website. What are the first three to five things you'll try in order to establish contact with them?"

Shannon and Kerckhoff were pioneers of disclosure thinking — They understand the concept of “build it like it’s broken”. This was especially true in WWII cryptography, but it’s becoming increasingly clear in it’s relevance to the “peacetime” software that we use today.

I’m going to provide a practical, ubiquitous, and risk/benefit focussed version of the advice in the tweet, aimed at the average Internet citizen who wants to take advantage of these technologies, while understanding how they can minimize the risks that come with their use.