Hi! I'm Alan. Professionally, I'm both a business generalist, and a specialist in a number of subject domains (e.g. GRC, InfoSec, BCP, ICT, HR).
I've worked across industries, sectors, and locations around the world in-person and remote!
All the professional stuff about me is at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alaneyue/
I live in San Francisco, am from South Florida, and have also lived in Orlando, Dallas, Austin, and Honolulu.
I live a purpose driven life seeking to serve and make a positive difference in the lives of others because I don't know how long I have.
Because, in 1984 I learned I had HIV and thought I had about a year.
Well, I'm still here, still don't know how long I have, and still am driven to serve others.
My life is not about me, and I'm grateful for that.
I'm intense.
I'm FUN too.
I love travel for work or play! I'm not a tourist, but rather an adventurer. I'd rather the milonga than a "tango show".
Moar 2 come!
Wikipedia, and the entire Wikimedia movement, has been a democratic, anti-authoritarian experiment since the day of its inception.
It's a project that matters, something I've been proud to have made a career of.
I spent my 20 years at the Wikimedia Foundation trying to further that experiment on a professional basis, and I have never been prouder of my former colleagues at WMF than I have been these past few months as we've been making @wwu a reality.
You should organize your workplace too.
"Harvest now. Decrypt later."
It's not just cryptocurrency vulnerable to quantum computing "quantum speedup" (ala Shor's or Grover's).
Any cyphertext captured in the past is subject to cryptanalytic attack today or in the future.
Andrew Gault, the venture capitalist who funded the quantum hardware labs now threatening bitcoin, says the industry is looking in the wrong place. Google's own security team moved in the same direction in March.
CxO: "Holy shizzle! We need to get control of AI use! It's out of control! We're going to get fined, sued, and maybe executives might go to jail!"
Information Security: "Great! First we will inventory the use of AI, map that against employees and contractors who are using " Shadow AI", and have a conversation with them to cease and desist while we bring rigor to the use of AI"
CxO: "Excellent! But, I need to still keep vibe coding while using this Claude Bot thing I downloaded to my company laptop last night. Oh! And I also need to keep using that Agentic AI stock trading bot I loaded on my company laptop as well!"
Information Security: 😳🧐😒🙄
Turns out the C-suite loves shadow AI - Help Net Security
#shadowai #executivesuite #policyexception
https://share.google/UjrLQ4tcbLH1LnfhF
Microsoft has banned security researcher "Nightmare Eclipse" from GitHub!
This is the researcher who disclosed several zero-days after Microsoft also deleted their MSRC account. This security researcher is now on blogspot: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/
Not a good day for "Responsible Disclosure".
Every day we stray further from the Internet's pure light.
It takes work to take your privacy back!
The good news is that it is still possible with certain embedded systems.
Case in point...
https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/
Let's just share our most candid, intimate conversations with a pasta sauce company!
What could go wrong?
Nobody would EVER think of putting that device in a bedroom, office, or some other place than the dining room table. Right?
https://futurism.com/future-society/prego-pivots-pasta-sauce-microphone
Very useful guidance on AI Security from the Cloud Security Alliance.
The “AI Vulnerability
Storm”: Building a “Mythosready” Security Program
Expedited Strategy Briefing
By the CSA CISO Community, SANS, [un]prompted,
the OWASP Gen AI Security Project, and the wider community.
Contact [email protected] with any inquiries.
12 April, 2026
https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/mythosready-20260413.pdf
New, by me: Mounir Idrassi, the developer of the popular file encryption software Veracrypt, says Microsoft has locked his account used for sending software updates, and warned that Windows users who encrypt their PCs with his software may soon find it "impossible to boot," Idrassi tells me.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/veracrypt-encryption-software-windows-microsoft-lock-boot-issues/
The maker of the popular open-source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.
Anthropic’s newest model won’t be available to the public. It’s so dangerous that Anthropic formed a 12-company coalition including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to deploy the model for defensive security.
Finding high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser has never been easier...for defenders AND attackers!
Brooke Vibber 
Zack Whittaker