Gânduri Eclectice – Eclectic Thoughts
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AI Transparency Statements
When you read an article now online, do you really know who wrote it? Human or AI? Or some hybrid combination? How would you know? Are you sure? Can you be sure? I read an interesting article by Kester Brewin describing the AI Transparency Statement he created for his latest book. This seems, to me,
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Quis custodiet ipsos nubem?
Microsoft is not having a very good time right now. Their not-so-recent breach (2024-01-19 report) turned out to be a mega-breach (2024-03-08 report), and now seems to have been even more serious (2024-03-11), without clear assurance that the intruders really have been evicted completely, uncertainty over what might have been exfiltrated, and uncertainty over what
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Time, Gentlemen
It’s time to fix Police Vetting “It is obvious that Wayne Couzens should never have been a police officer. Whilst holding a position of trust, in reality he was a serial sex offender. Warning signs were overlooked throughout his career and opportunities to confront him were missed. We believe that Sarah died because he was
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Insider/Nearsider Subversion of MFA
MFA is becoming ubiquitous for many of us. I’d like to: You what?! So before we get down to subverting some extremely useful and important technology that provides MFA, we should probably define some terms. But MFA is secure, right? Security is a fascinating area. It’s full of edgecases and devil-in-the-detail situations. Sometimes one needs
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We Need To Talk About Insider Risk
Note: Some parts of this article are necessarily vague. Nothing here is intended to reveal any sensitive “Capabilities & Methods”. The world of security is a peculiar one. Risk cannot be eliminated completely, and even if one were to try to do this it would almost certainly result in an unusable system. It’s all about
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Linear Thinking in a Non-Linear World
The human mind instinctively understands linear systems. These are where the output or effect is in direct proportion (or simple inverse proportion) to the input. Put twice as much water in the kettle, it takes twice as long to boil. Run half as fast, it takes twice as long to get somewhere. Cook twice as
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Wright Around The World
A Radio Era has ended with the passing of Steve Wright. But whilst I knew him from his BBC Radio 1 & Radio 2 programmes, I was personally most impressed with one of his lesser-known programmes. Lesser-known in the UK, maybe, but broadcast world-wide on BBC World Service Radio: Wright Around The World. During the
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Reputation: so easily dented
Illustration: Reputation Monster: Imagined by DALL-E Large organisations can be excellent at what they do, but then be let down by minor backwaters of their business. Maybe even parts which they outsource but which retain their branding, or even which they consume as a “white label” service/product which is then given their branding. But if
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Passwords
“To set, or not to set: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous password rules,Or to take arms against a sea of hackers,And by opposing, end them? To change, to forget—No more; and by a forget to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThe
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Jira Ticket Hell
Many of us will, at least some of the time and on certain contracts or projects, end up using Jira. As most will know (if they’re still reading), Jira is a ticketing system for issue & problem tracking, often used alongside Confluence, both of these from Atlassian. Recently I’ve been pondering various different Jira systems
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