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  • November 7, 2022

    The Dirty Little Secret About Cyber Security : Not Too Complicated, Just Hard Work

    When the real truth starts seeping in, it feels like one of those detective stories where you realise in hindsight that the clues were there in plain view for anyone who cared to really look.


  • October 18, 2022

    The Inconvenient Truth About the State of Swedish Cyber Security

    The nation is under constant attack and we’re ill prepared to fight back.


  • August 9, 2022

    The Cost of Optimism : Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Change and the Total Perspective Vortex

    I recently read two novels about gay men in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Their reluctance to take the test reminds me of my own feelings with regards to global warming.


  • June 2, 2022

    The Better Deep Learning Gets, the More Vulnerable It Is to Adversarial Attacks

    These are not your ordinary run of the mill cyber security threats. Adversarial attacks don’t rely on exploiting bugs.


  • May 30, 2022

    Now You See Me, Now You Don’t : Adversarial Patching Brings Serious Trust Issues to Machine Learning

    A brief seven years after Gibson’s far fetched futurism, science fiction has become a reality. Does that mean we’re screwed?


  • April 30, 2022

    Preparing For the Next War : Carlota Perez on Why the Future Won’t Look Like the Past

    Reading Carlota Perez feels like looking at one of those images doctors use to diagnose colour blindness; where before there was just a jumble of dots, patterns emerge.


  • April 25, 2021

    Culture Encoded : Ellen Ullman’s Life in the Machine

    Close to the Machine : Technophilia and its discontents by Ellen Ullman chronicles the dawn of the Internet from the point of view of a freelance programmer. I loved it intensely.


  • April 21, 2021

    Girly Stuff : Lessons from Katrine Marçal’s Mother of Invention

    The system has always worked hard to hide the fact that women are just as brilliantly ingenious innovators as men are.

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