It’s true, I read about it in one of those productivity blogs you know; the ones that are so compelling that they actually make you totally unproductive while reading them. Boom boom, he’s on all night ladies and gentlemen. The gist of the post was that you should write down your five year goal in [...]
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The Five Year Business Dream
March 6, 2008Dear Idiot, Your New UK Security Tools Law Sucks!
January 18, 2008Dear Idiot (Tom Harris – Labour MP for Glasgow), The world has gone mad and I am boarding the next commercial flight on Virgin Galactic in search of a world where numnuts and numties no longer rule. It was my birthday last Thursday and very peasant it was too. I got back from a week [...]
Upcoming Speaking Events and DeepSec Austria Slides
December 10, 2007DeepSec Austria was a great event. You can get my slides here. I think fun was had by all but feel free to leave a comment if you were there! I will be speaking at a few events in the new year (…plus a few more not yet confirmed). OWASP Australia – Gold Coast (keynote) [...]
You Can’t Spell Compliance without Liance
November 9, 2007Yesterday morning I was in chilly Chicago. On the train into downtown I asked the guy sitting next to me if the next stop was mine (showing him the address on my phone). He kindly spent 5+ mins guiding me off the train and through the maze onto Madison St. and to my meeting location. [...]
Rudy Giuliani Needs a Lesson in Statistics
November 3, 2007Someone on Radio 4 was commenting on Rudy Giuiliani yesterday. In a political speech it seems he said; “I had prostate cancer five, six years ago, my chance of surviving prostate cancer – and, thank God, I was cured of it – in the United States? 82 per cent. My chance of surviving prostate cancer [...]
Why I Love the BBC (Again)
October 26, 2007I have lived all over the world and am in the final throws of moving back to my homeland, England. In fact my wife and kids got here today for us to find a house over the next four days. Europe is rapidly evolving in front of everyones eyes. When I left in early 2000 [...]
The Security Genome Revisited
October 2, 2007Dave Aitel quoted my Security Genome post on his Daily Dave mailing list and wrote; I would posit that no good hacker works alone. The question should be “What makes good teams better than average teams?”. He’s right of course. I was barely touching the surface of the scope of things I would like to explore [...]
Curphey and SourceClear Turn Blue!
September 18, 2007I am extremely pleased to being able to announce that the SourceClear software (Oxygen Security Platform and the Security Life applications) will now be built at Microsoft and that I will be joining as a full-time employee heading up the ACE Services group in Europe and product managing the software. Many people often start these [...]
What Could Singularity Mean To Security Innovation?
September 11, 2007The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. It’s serious business with serious potential impacts on our lives. If you think I am being sensationalist then this article on the global risk of singularity may also help puts its power into perspective. What could singularity mean to security innovation? If we are truly at [...]
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