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Short-form takes — quick reactions and sharp one-liners.

Thinking

Build the tooling. Don't be the tooling.

The AI move in vulnerability research isn't prompting from scratch every run — it's using AI to build deterministic scanners, fuzzers, and analysis pipelines.…

22 Apr 2026 · 1 min read
Personal

The character of the kingdom

“The character of the kingdom ultimately inherits the character of the king.” - Dr Edwin Louis Cole.…

06 Jan 2020 · 1 min read
leadership

What's your 20/20?

“You can achieve less than you think in a year and more than you think in a decade.”…

09 Dec 2019 · 1 min read
Security

Managing smart device risk: A "how-to" for the average human.

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.…

20 Jan 2019 · 5 min read
Thinking

Bricks and Pyramids

QOTD: You have to build the bricks before you can build the Pyramids.…

11 Sep 2018 · 1 min read
Thinking

Mastering the mundane

I live a pretty frenetic and busy life both activity-wise and mentally. Some of this is environmental, most of this is my own making, and almost all of it I love… But it’s important to be reminded to appreciate the simple and sometimes boring things too.…

03 Sep 2018 · 1 min read
Security

Making noise

“We had a problem with a few needles, and as an industry decided that the best thing to do was to drop a haystack…

31 Aug 2018 · 1 min read
Security

What's in a name? Defining "hacker" in 2018

If you do a Google Image Search against the word hacker, you’ll get images of scary-looking balaclava-clad cybercriminals hunched over a…

25 Jun 2018 · 2 min read
leadership

On insight, responsibility, and ownership

Recognizing a problem qualifies you to be a part of the solution. Refusing to be a part of the solution disqualifies you from complaining…

02 Jan 2018 · 1 min read
Security

My cybersecurity predictions for 2017

If 2016 did anything for cybersecurity, it was to prove that truth can end up wayyyyyyy stranger than fiction (where fiction, of course, are…

19 Dec 2016 · 1 min read
Security

Solve 99% of Your Infosec Problems with this One Weird Trick!

99% of good infosec is equivalent to remembering to wash your hands after you use the bathroom. As an industry, we should be working to make that easier.…

31 May 2016 · 1 min read
Thinking

People are awesome...

…and I’m not just talking about those kick-ass Youtube videos that pop up each year. I have a core belief that people…

22 Apr 2016 · 1 min read