Personal The French Authorities Are After Me - Maybe? If the phone call is to be believed the Paris Police are after me.
Stories Your Friend the Cybersecurity Curmudgeon Ever wonder why your cybersecurity friends seem, well, curmudgeonly? Let's explore that, shall we?
Professional So Your Company Sponsored Your First Conference Presentation You're a great SE at your company. Marketing tells you that you've been picked to speak at a vendor conference and represent the company. They hand you the slide deck. My advice: build a different story.
Personal I Gave Up My Privacy For Beer Delivery Tracking is a bad thing, except when it is a good thing. How do you make an informed decision about what's good tracking for you without understanding the risks?
Cybersecurity My Love Letter to Cybersecurity - 2025 I've been in cybersecurity since the early 2000's. It's difficult, frustrating, and thankless. And I still love it 20+ years later.
Personal The Case of the Apple Gift Cards In January of 2020 I was a cybersecurity professional, and my wife was an account. We both know better, but we nearly got taken by a gift card scam.
Stories DTMF Modems Not Calling Home A story from my past, sorting out esoteric tech problems with dial-up modems. For fun and profit.
Stories Adventures in cc:Mail, Now With Water! It was a Sunday evening like any other, until I heard water in the data center...
