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Retired CISSP. Reformed former CISO. Also an architect, strategist, and risk manager. Radio nut and font fanatic.

I don't do LinkedIn or most other social media. I am on Bluesky, same handle. I might mention my website occasionally.

@jerry Let them know that despite there being plenty of anti-AI sentiment out in the world, it is not only NOT going away but it is up to the security community to fix it. Just like we did with PHP when that came out spawning hundreds of vulnerable websites from non-HTML programmers. Just like we did when we moved from server rooms to the cloud. Before HTTPS. And on and on. Whether we like it or not, security pros have to fix things.
Tony Hoare (1934-2026)

Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

I'm not sure how this works, but I just had an ebay seller in California decline to sell me something because they don't ship outside the US.

I'm in New Mexico.

#NewMexico

I met another Turing award winner last night - Martin Hellman. I've known Whit Diffie since Sun days, so now I know both halves of the public key/private key pair pair. 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman

Martin Hellman - Wikipedia

DOTI's (Denver Department of Transporation and Infrastructure) commitment to Vision Zero seems half-hearted at best. Examples: Nothing done to address the speedway that is Monaco between 6th and Colfax. Using RRSPs instead of HAWKs or full-fledged bike signals for the Krameria-Kearney bikeway. Not updating the ancient traffic light at 8th & Krameria. Et cetera.

https://denverite.com/2026/03/05/denver-speed-cameras-vision-zero-record-traffic-deaths/

Denver to launch speed cameras, ‘comprehensive’ review after record traffic deaths

2025 was a record year for street fatalities, with 93 deaths from car crashes.

Denverite
I've helped fellow travelers in fluent French, okay Spanish, and even my sketchy Russian, but I will never be as badass as this person.
I'm noticing more and more small business closures: four in the past week alone. Two restaurants, a bakery, and a pharmacy. Another bakery stopped in January.

I like this use of absolute time rather than relative time.

When you see that a code expires "in 5 minutes" you have no way of knowing how long it has taken to get to your inbox.

#2FA #MFA #CyberSecurity

Kennedy‘s anti-vaccine crusade will make the lives of the elderly shorter and more miserable, writes Donald G. McNeil.: “this new era of adult vaccines is teaching us something unexpected: The miseries of age are more linked to late-life infections than we’d realized. Preventing those infections may have marvelous side effects.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/26/robert-kennedy-war-vaccines-senior-health/
RFK Jr.’s war on vaccines is coming for the elderly

The miseries of aging are more linked to late-life infections than was previously understood.

The Washington Post