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This is intended to be a complete list of my media output over the years. If anything’s missing, please let me know. Last updated 16 May 2013.
Articles
- Reckless Oz regulator runs roughshod over rights, ZDNet Australia, 16 May 2013.
- Mobile broadband’s false promise, ZDNet Australia, 10 May 2013.
- You’ll love the ‘How Fast is the NBN?’ site … until you read this, Crikey, 9 May 2013.
- The fuzzy logic of Australia’s data breach draft, ZDNet Australia, 3 May 2013.
- Australia’s Privacy Commissioner gets serious about infosec, CSO Online, 30 April 2013.
- LulzSec? Bah, cybercrime ain’t no joke, ZDNet Australia, 26 April 2013.
- Verizon DBIR confirms we’re rubbish, so let’s do something about it, CSO Online, 23 April 2013.
- WordPress attack highlights 30 million targets, ZDNet Australia, 19 April 2013.
- Will speed kill the next tech revolution?, ZDNet Australia, 11 April 2013.
- Broadband battle: hard numbers, ideology and gut feel, Crikey, 10 April 2013.
- Like it or not, Turnbull’s NBN vision strikes a chord, ABC The Drum, 10 April 2013.
- Broadband battlelines drawn: Turnbull’s plan for fast internet, Crikey, 9 April 2013.
- Ninety billion maybes: 13 questions about Turnbull’s NBN, Crikey, 8 April 2013.
- Bitcoin: More ideology than trustworthy currency, ZDNet Australia, 4 April 2013.
- The Spamhaus attack’s real lessons, Technology Spectator, 2 April 2013.
- Trend Micro’s new paradigm: old (but good) advice in a new bottle, CSO Online, 1 April 2013.
- Summly sale storytelling hides horrible home truths, ZDNet Australia, 28 March 2013.
- Microsoft’s Melbourne tests confirm: counterfeit software a security risk, ZDNet Australia, 27 March 2013.
- Backwards attitude to online identity erodes our power, ZDNet Australia, 15 March 2013.
- Reserve Bank hacking raises questions — and false alarm, Crikey, 12 March 2013.
- Will you stop with all your ‘cybering’ already?, ZDNet Australia, 7 March 2013.
- Beware! Anonymous has become the Hello Kitty of hacktivism, ZDNet Australia, 4 March 2013.
- ABC hack attack: online security is getting worse, Crikey, 28 February 2013.
- The Twitter alternative you might be willing to pay for, Crikey, 26 February 2013.
- App.net’s freemium gamble, Technology Spectator, 26 February 2013.
- Vulnerability mythbuster: Windows, Flash good; Apple, Linux bad, CSO Online, 26 February 2013.
- PS4 socials all the gaming, says Sony; but why?, ZDNet Australia, 21 February 2013.
- Turnbull and the barking mad NBN debate: numbers needed, Crikey, 19 February 2013.
- Influence, vanity metrics and other internet astrology, ZDNet Australia, 14 February 2013.
- Geeks doubt motives of Telstra’s ‘shaping’ trial, Crikey, 11 February 2013.
- Berners-Lee, Silicon Valley, and Australia’s cultural cringe, ZDNet Australia, 7 February 2013.
- Why Telstra plans to slow you down to fight online piracy, Crikey, 6 February 2013.
- Chinese attacks show up useless infosec, again, CSO Online, 4 February 2013.
- China not the only ones taking part in cyber spookery, Crikey, 4 February 2013.
- Apps? No root? Your device serves others: Berners-Lee, ZDNet Australia, 1 February 2013.
- Some of that ol’ NBN religion, ZDNet Australia, 31 January 2013.
- Why you SHOULD worry about cybercrime (but it’s no war), Crikey, 25 January 2013.
- Australia’s National Security Strategy? Or Labor’s election-year cyber gimmick?, ZDNet Australia, 24 January 2013.
- Silent but Mega, Kim Dotcom’s file-sharing comeback, Crikey, 21 January 2013.
- Gillard’s trolling plan will please the media, but it’s nothing new, Crikey, 17 January 2013.
- From academics to Anonymous, Swartz sets off huge reaction, Crikey, 15 January 2013.
- Aaron Swartz: a martyr for info-freedom fighters?, Crikey, 14 January 2013.
- Nasty Ruby on Rails vulnerabilities highlight small websites’ risk to us all, CSO Online, 11 January 2013.
- Tech in ’12: take nothing for granted online, Crikey, 24 December 2012.
- Could 2013 be the year we finally sort out security?, CSO Online, 24 December 2012.
- 2012: the Year of Cyberwar that wasn’t, CSO Online, 21 December 2012.
- Users snap over Instagram, but should have seen it coming, Crikey, 19 December 2012.
- Aust businesses are losing in the big data era, one ‘Like’ button at a time, ZDNet Australia, 14 December 2012.
- Is there really too much freedom of speech online?, Crikey, 10 December 2012.
- ‘Trial by Google’ the new threat to privacy, Leveson warns, Crikey, 7 December 2012.
- ‘Hacking democracy’: a tool to streamline our Right To Know, Crikey, 28 November 2012.
- Password exposed in Click Frenzy security slip, ZDNet Australia, 21 November 2012.
- Ryde your way to disaster-recovery success, TechRepublic, 18 November 2012.
- Conroy’s new filter a political victory, but for how long?, Crikey, 12 November 2012.
- Net filter backdown shows power in the hands of the smart, Crikey, 9 November 2012.
- Cyber crime wave: tsunami or ripple?, CSO Online, 2 November 2012.
- Google defames us all, but should we sue?, Crikey, 1 November 2012.
- Keeping ‘Cybergeddon’ at bay, Technology Spectator, 31 October 2012.
- High praise for Oz DSD’s “Catch, Patch, Match”, CSO Online, 26 October 2012.
- Cyberwar is happening now: turn your sysadmins into heroes, ZDNet Australia, 25 October 2012.
- DSD confirms: application whitelisting is the go, CSO Online, 24 October 2012.
- E-commerce sales channels proliferating? Relax, it’s just a display issue: NetSuite, ZDNet Australia, 11 October 2012.
- Forget government data retention, Google has you wired, Crikey, 2 October 2012.
- Fake-police ransomware reaches Australia, CSO Online, 28 September 2012.
- Social media laws? It’s time to take a chill pill, Crikey, 27 September 2012.
- Symantec’s Sydney SOC surge sounds suspiciously so-so, CSO Online, 20 September 2012.
- Microsoft kills the little guys at ‘cloud scale’, ZDNet Australia, 14 September 2012.
- Windows 8 interface’s design heritage, ZDNet Australia, 14 September 2012.
- Apple’s new JesusPhone arrives — but it’s all about the software, Crikey, 14 September 2012.
- TV Now’s cloud complications, Technology Spectator, 10 September 2012.
- How VMware hacked iOS security (allegedly), CSO Online, 31 August 2012.
- VMware uses Aussie experience to storm Asia, ZDNet Australia, 30 August 2012.
- Samsung’s unremarkable copy shop, Technology Spectator, 24 August 2012.
- Anonymous hacks Sony again, except no they didn’t, CSO Online, 20 August 2012.
- Business is drunk if it thinks it doesn’t have to police Facebook, Crikey, 7 August 2012.
- A dangerous cyber security disconnect, Technology Spectator, 3 August 2012.
- Six tips for developing a security culture, CSO Online, 31 July 2012.
- An Anonymous attack in search of a purpose, Crikey, 30 July 2012.
- Anonymous’ AAPT plunder, Technology Spectator, 27 July 2012.
- Man up, AAPT, you lost customers’ personal data, CSO Online, 26 July 2012.
- BYOD: a corporate con job?, Technology Spectator, 26 July 2012.
- Twitter is humanity, warts and all. Where’s the story in that?, Crikey, 11 July 2012.
- Cashing in on Kaching, Technology Spectator, 6 July 2012.
- ‘It’s how we connect’: Telstra and the spy sites mystery, Crikey, 27 June 2012.
- Prepare yourself for more Dropbox-like security disasters, CSO Online, 25 June 2012.
- Perimeter security: IT’s Maginot Line, ZDNet Australia, 22 June 2012.
- Innovate or die!, Technology Spectator, 18 June 2012.
- Aussie broadband to make a trillion in 2050, ZDNet Australia, 15 June 2012.
- LinkedIn takes security “very seriously”? Bollocks!, CSO Online, 8 June 2012.
- New revenue stream is kids’ play for Facebook, Crikey, 6 June 2012.
- America opens new front against Iran … online, Crikey, 4 June 2012.
- Samsung Galaxy S III’s ‘iPhone-killer’ potential, Technology Spectator, 1 June 2012.
- Why Flame can’t be the world’s most complex malware, CSO Online, 30 May 2012.
- In Iran, Flame heats up the cold war online, Crikey, 29 May 2012.
- The dawn of the cyber posse, ZDNet Australia, 28 May 2012.
- Optus’ innovation directive, Technology Spectator, 25 May 2012.
- Kaspersky’s right: Apple, lift your security game, CSO Online, 24 May 2012.
- Twitter mapping and how we choose our own adventure, Crikey, 23 May 2012.
- AusCERT 2012: NSA, FBI split on comms intercepts, ZDNet Australia, 21 May 2012.
- AusCERT 2012: DNS poisoning the ‘thin end of a wedge’, ZDNet Australia, 17 May 2012.
- AusCERT 2012: Russian crims evade transaction profiling, ZDNet Australia, 17 May 2012.
- IT: the opportunities, some lost, from a low-tech budget, Crikey, 9 May 2012.
- Anonymous hacktivists prefer penetration, but choose targets of opportunity, CSO Online, 4 May 2012.
- Facebook is profitable, but $86 billion is still speculation, Crikey, 4 May 2012.
- Street View Wi-Fi: is it Google’s News of the World moment?, Crikey, 30 April 2012.
- Security concerns over Australia’s e-health records, CSO Online, 23 April 2012.
- Blockbuster trial for a movie and TV industry in decline, ABC Drum Opinion, 23 April 2012.
- AFACT’s appeal against iiNet decision dismissed — but just you wait, Crikey, 20 April 2012.
- Facebook buys Instagram’s buzz in lead-up to share float, Crikey, 10 April 2012.
- Are we winning the war on spam?, CSO Online, 5 April 2012.
- Apple in court: ACCC iPad fight tests dodgy 4G claims, Crikey, 28 March 2012.
- The Facebook experiment, ZDNet Australia, 23 March 2012.
- Remote Desktop Protocol security hole: 5 unanswered questions, CSO Online, 19 March 2012.
- Broadband minister launches Cyber Defence University Challenge, CSO Online, 16 March 2012.
- Auraya’s ArmorVox delivers voice authentication from the cloud, CSO Online, 16 March 2012.
- The .xxx domain is here to stay, but Conroy could still block it, Crikey, 16 March 2012.
- Microsoft patches Remote Desktop Protocol hole but danger remains, CSO Online, 15 March 2012.
- Australia deserves its internet enemy status, ZDNet Australia, 14 March 2012.
- Adobe learns that security is a numbers game, CSO Online, 13 March 2012.
- Oz ethical hackers to be set professional standards, CSO Online, 9 March 2012.
- Zero damage from last year’s RSA breach, CSO Online, 7 March 2012.
- Hacking up the facts, Technology Spectator, 7 March 2012.
- Google search bias: the eternal PR battle , ZDNet Australia, 24 February 2012.
- You are what you surf, buy or tweet, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 February 2012.
- CrypTweet encrypts Twitter direct messages, CSO Online, 21 February 2012.
- Mobile security a “game-changer” for Aussie telcos: Analyst, CSO Online, 17 February 2012.
- Blocking all .info domains is “censorship”: The Greens, CSO Online, 14 February 2012.
- Sport has to think outside the box, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 2012.
- Why security comes last, ZDNet Australia, 31 January 2012.
- The tweets must flow, except when they risk revenue, Crikey, 31 January 2012.
- Hacked or not, Ludlam’s a target of spies, ZDNet Australia, 25 January 2012.
- Linux.conf.au 2012 photos, ZDNet Australia, 25 January 2012.
- Ah, the tech-soap that is Apple will run and run, Crikey, 25 January 2012.
- Untested buggy UEFI heads for prime-time, ZDNet Australia, 23 January 2012.
- Beware the piracy clones, Technology Spectator, 23 January 2012.
- Collateral damage in the copyright wars, ABC Drum Opinion, 23 January 2012.
- No SOPA for Australia: AG (contributor only), ZDNet Australia, 20 January 2012.
- Aus becoming surveillance state: Ludlam, ZDNet Australia, 20 January 2012.
- Open source needed to save democracy, ZDNet Australia, 18 January 2012. Also published at TechRepublic.
- The snake oil that is domain registries’ big fat new revenue stream, Crikey, 11 January 2012.
- Anonymous imposters: hiding behind the AntiSec identity, ABC Drum Opinion, 2 January 2012.
- Facebook for banking? No thanks!, Technology Spectator, 23 December 2011.
- Permission-greedy apps not always rogue or lazy, CSO, 22 December 2011.
- Still mid-game in the digital year that was, Crikey, 21 December 2011.
- Hactivism goes mobile with Android.Arspam, CSO, 20 December 2011.
- Time to drop the ‘e’, Technology Spectator, 13 December 2011.
- Govt’s DisasterWatch: the ’9/11 of apps’, ZDNet Australia, 9 December 2011.
- Turnbull overstating the uncommercial NBN case … mostly, Crikey, 9 December 2011.
- When is a journalist not a journalist?, ABC Drum Opinion, 9 December 2011.
- Want data? Scoop up those lost USB keys, CSO, 7 December 2011.
- Influence without Klout, Technology Spectator, 28 November 2011.
- Want government cloud? Rethink security!, CSO, 24 November 2011.
- Today’s cloud winners: the cybercriminals, CSO, 24 November 2011.
- No easy answers in Apple-Samsung case, ZDNet Australia, 18 November 2011.
- Shock analysis: most cybercriminals are stupid, CSO, 15 November 2011.
- A great big cyber tax on business, Technology Spectator, 11 November 2011.
- eCrime Symposium wrap: Satisfaction tinged with frustration, CSO, 11 November 2011.
- eCrime Symposium: Harden up, warns Aussie crime fighter, CSO, 10 November 2011.
- eCrime Symposium: Australia considers online crime portal, CSO, 9 November 2011.
- Bleeply lets you rethink that Tweet, ZDNet Australia, 31 October 2011.
- Ultrabooks have Intel Anti-Theft tech, yawn, CSO, 31 October 2011.
- Patching the price of security, Technology Spectator, 28 October 2011.
- DSD wins US Cybersecurity Innovation Award, CSO, 26 October 2011.
- Hybrid clouds the eventual reality for risk management, CSO, 26 October 2011.
- McAfee’s DeepSAFE: Beyond OS, beyond need?, CSO, 21 October 2011.
- Lethal medical device hack taken to next level, CSO, 21 October 2011.
- Cybercrime 2016: Paper-boy refrigerator revenge, CSO, 20 October 2011.
- McAfee confirms Android as favourite mobile target, CSO, 19 October 2011.
- Duqu, Son of Stuxnet, has arrived, CSO, 19 October 2011.
- Android, the simmering security shemozzle, CSO, 14 October 2011.
- From idiot box to idiot internet, Technology Spectator, 13 October 2011.
- Aussie “family” social network fails security basics, CSO, 11 October 2011.
- Turnbull’s NBN twilight zone — give the man a cigar (Cuban of course), Crikey, 11 October 2011.
- Global time zone database closed following legal threat, CSO, 7 October 2011.
- Gillard and others honour Jobs’ memory (contributor only), ZDNet Australia, 6 October 2011.
- Steve Jobs deserved his cult — you don’t even know how he influenced you, Crikey, 6 October 2011.
- iPhone release: no bunch of fives to the fore, but it’s OK, Crikey, 5 October 2011.
- Flash Player 11: Adobe’s great security hope, CSO, 4 October 2011.
- Google+: What’s in a name?, ABC Drum Opinion, 27 September 2011.
- Hey Facebook, we want to share, but this is ridiculous, Crikey, 23 September 2011.
- NBN retail pricing neither a bargain nor an extravagance, Crikey, 20 September 2011.
- Trends on Twitter brief but telling, just like in the real world, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 2011.
- Yet another free pass for Aussie spooks, CSO, 16 September 2011.
- “Insidious” cyber chaos too fast for ASIO (contributor only), CSO, 15 September 2011.
- Infosec’s mega marketing misalignment mishap, CSO, 13 September 2011.
- 18 infosec fails that let crims win, ZDNet Australia, 12 September 2011.
- MD5 password hashes are dead, CSO, 9 September 2011.
- Kaspersky sets sights on corporate market, CSO, 8 September 2011.
- Rogue Google certificate used by 300,000 Iranian IPs , CSO, 6 September 2011.
- AVG 2012: your local pub bouncer made digital, CSO, 1 September 2011.
- Google+ is a goddam Trojan horse, Crikey, 30 August 2011.
- Online health records at risk from malware, CSO, 26 August 2011.
- Has Facebook killed the undercover cop?, CSO, 25 August 2011.
- iQuit, says Jobs, leaving Apple in the hands of a disciple, Crikey, 25 August 2011.
- Shady RAT’s risk of exaggerated claims, CSO, 24 August 2011.
- Inquiry picks holes in government Cybercrime Bill, CSO, 19 August 2011.
- Turnbull’s curious high-bandwidth blind spot, ABC Drum Opinion, 18 August 2011.
- To Google, we are data fodder, and I am an unperson, Crikey, 17 August 2011.
- Could Google pull an Apple on Motorola hardware?, CSO, 16 August 2011.
- Five lessons from LinkedIn’s opt-out stupidity, CSO, 12 August 2011.
- Sorry too hard a word for LinkedIn over privacy faux pas, Crikey, 12 August 2011.
- LinkedIn pulls a Facebook-like swifty on ‘social advertising’, Crikey, 11 August 2011.
- Polymorphic threats cause pain for traditional anti-virus: Symantec, CSO, 9 August 2011.
- LulzSec, WikiLeaks, Murdoch: hacking’s fourth wave, CSO, 8 August 2011.
- The real cyber criminals are no lolling matter, ABC Drum Opinion, 8 August 2011.
- Siemens commits “basic security errors”: Byres, CSO, 8 August 2011.
- Pure Hacking’s PureWAF managed firewall wins iAward, CSO, 5 August 2011.
- Is voluntary internet filtering a crime?, Crikey, 4 August 2011.
- High-profile hacks distract attention from serious threats: Sophos, CSO, 2 August 2011.
- ‘Impossible’ new wireless tech an NBN-killer? Not quite, not yet, Crikey, 29 July 2011.
- IBM halves Woolworths maintenance calls, ZDNet Australia, 28 July 2011.
- Telstra GOC saves $1.5m with single sign-on, ZDNet Australia, 28 July 2011.
- Media’s internet cluelessness is unacceptable and they will die, Crikey, 28 July 2011.
- IBM tech intercepts packets to control apps, ZDNet Australia, 28 July 2011.
- IBM pushes Tivoli for cows and guns, ZDNet Australia, 27 July 2011.
- Skills shortage risks NBN benefits: NetApp, ZDNet Australia, 27 July 2011.
- The keyboard is dead, Technology Spectator, 26 July 2011.
- Cyber Storm III security exercise key findings released, CSO, 25 July 2011.
- Poll-driven knee-jerk reactions: the latest political craze, ABC Drum Opinion, 25 July 2011.
- Politics of NBN pricing: comparing potatoes and pomegranates, Crikey, 25 July 2011.
- DSD: Four mitigation strategies prevent 85% of intrusions, CSO, 23 July 2011.
- In IT’s dance of the inflating elephants, Microsoft is stumbling, Crikey, 22 July 2011.
- Guardian tech editor leaking information, claims LulzSec, CSO, 22 July 2011.
- Hackers target Tasmanian government website, CSO, 21 July 2011.
- Watchdogs welcome Australia’s right-to-privacy move , CSO, 21 July 2011.
- Australia to consider right-to-privacy law, CSO, 21 July 2011.
- Four lessons from LulzSec vs Murdoch, CSO, 20 July 2011.
- Child exploitation material filters… same policy, different activities, Crikey, 20 July 2011.
- NEXTDC leases secure Canberra data centre, CSO, 19 July 2011.
- LulzSec 1, Murdoch 0: News Int, the hacker, becomes the hacked, Crikey, 19 July 2011.
- LulzSec hacks UK’s “The Sun”, News International, CSO, 19 July 2011.
- Quintet nations agree on cybercrime action plan, CSO, 17 July 2011.
- Why rush? Let others find the Google+ privacy landmines, ABC Drum Opinion, 15 July 2011.
- Amazon AWS algorithms watch for cloud-based hacks, CSO, 14 July 2011.
- Online crime under-reported, under-researched, CSO, 12 July 2011.
- There’s no way I’m handing over data to Google+, Crikey, 12 July 2011.
- Cyber threats the focus for Quintet of Attorneys-General, CSO, 8 July 2011.
- Air-gap security an “enduring fairy tale”: Byres, CSO, 5 July 2011.
- Interpol blacklist goes live in Canberra, ZDNet Australia, 1 July 2011.
- If Facebook killed Myspace will Google+ kill THE social network?, Crikey, 1 July 2011.
- Drug spam rules, thanks to WikiPharmacy: Symantec, CSO, 1 July 2011.
- Voluntary filtering removes the controversy, CSO, 30 June 2011.
- Internet filtering isn’t compulsory, but everyone will volunteer, Crikey, 30 June 2011.
- The only NBN monopoly seems to be on ignorance, ABC Drum Opinion, 27 June 2011.
- Telstra backs the NBN, but the devil’s in the detail, Crikey, 23 June 2011.
- Forget Anonymous, LulzSec, the real bad guys are in your bank accounts, Crikey, 22 June 2011.
- AVG urges mandatory cybercrime reporting, ZDNet Australia, 22 June 2011.
- The exploits of Freelancer.com, Technology Spectator, 22 June 2011.
- The Weiner show: we have no prick of conscience, Crikey, 9 June 2011.
- Hywood on Fairfax… expectation, hoping, wishing …, Crikey, 8 June 2011.
- Less pep talks, more stick on cybersecurity, ZDNet Australia, 7 June 2011.
- Santorum’s presidential hopes face a sticky problem, Crikey, 7 June 2011.
- I spy 100Mbps, Technology Spectator, 3 June 2011.
- Conroy’s blueprint for a digital economy … that doesn’t need an NBN, Crikey, 1 June 2011. Reprinted at Technology Spectator as Forget strategy, Conroy needs a reason.
- Political tweets eclipse blogs, but parties still don’t get it, Crikey, 31 May 2011.
- Facebook for under-13s? Who’s kidding whom here?, Crikey, 25 May 2011.
- Harvey should have stayed at home, Technology Spectator, 25 May 2011.
- NBN: ACCC wet dream, security nightmare, ZDNet Australia, 23 May 2011.
- Qld cops denounce ‘ethical hacking’, ZDNet Australia, 18 May 2011.
- AusCERT 2011: Silent victims thwart cybercops: Qld Police, ZDNet Australia, 17 May 2011.
- AusCERT 2011: Bank theft goes truly mobile, ZDNet Australia, 17 May 2011.
- AusCERT 2011: Black hats and whitegoods, ZDNet Australia, 17 May 2011.
- Privacy is a commodity, Technology Spectator, 17 May 2011.
- AusCERT 2011: Son of Stuxnet within a year: expert, ZDNet Australia, 16 May 2011.
- AusCERT 2011: Firms ignore ID theft risk, ZDNet Australia, 16 May 2011.
- NetSuite big fish push to cut mid-sized Oz? ZDNet Australia, 12 May 2011.
- IT: ritual shenanigans, but hey, this is government, Crikey, 11 May 2011.
- Gamification: Hot, new, unethical?, Technology Spectator, 2 May 2011.
- APF urges criminal penalties for smartphone privacy breaches, ZDNet Australia, 2 May 2011.
- Tired Microsoft delivers solid profits, for now, Crikey, 29 April 2011.
- Apple’s answer to Android: confidence … and shiny big numbers, Crikey, 21 April 2011.
- Facebook regulation, ABC Drum Opinion, 19 April 2011.
- The ‘hysteria’ around NBN cost blowouts, Crikey, 11 April 2011.
- Electronic voting a threat to democracy, ABC Unleashed, 30 March 2011.
- Iranian hackers prove internet security is rubbish, Crikey, 28 March 2011.
- ‘Arrogant’ Apple faces copyright suit over iPhone app content, Crikey, 14 March 2011.
- Apple, Oz TV firm copyright mediation fails, ZDNet Australia, 14 March 2011.
- Two chefs, Next G and the ‘wireless’ confusion, CRN Australia, 11 March 2011.
- Digital fingerprints the next privacy invasion?, ABC Unleashed, 9 March 2011.
- Apple: saving old media, or just making them its bitch?, Crikey, 9 March 2011.
- How Al Jazeera leads the world in social media for news reporting, Crikey, 7 March 2011.
- Journo shield law covers bloggers, independent media, Crikey, 4 March 2011.
- Build the NBN, but be careful of the detail: Optus boss, Crikey, 28 February 2011.
- AFACT versus iiNet appeal decision resolves nothing, Crikey, 25 February 2011.
- WikiLeaks isn’t cyber war, but maybe it’s piracy, Crikey, 17 February 2011.
- Digital apocalypse: the road to destruction, ZDNet Australia, 17 February 2011.
- Oz kicks US’s butt on net security: Gartner, ZDNet Australia, 16 February 2011.
- Egypt and the NBN: the internet, it’s made of people, Crikey, 14 February 2011.
- NBN is ‘visionary’, congratulations: Wu, ZDNet Australia, 14 February 2011.
- Hosing down the hype on wireless internet technology, Crikey, 9 February 2011.
- Microsoft’s record revenue, but for how long?, Crikey, 28 January 2011.
- Google kids have grown up, but where will they take the firm?, Crikey, 21 January 2011.
- Forget Steve Jobs, Apple’s rolling in cash, Crikey, 19 January 2011.
- Reading Steve Jobs’ entrails, is it time for Apple to come clean?, Crikey, 18 January 2011.
- Vodafone’s infosec balls-up a symptom of wider problems, Crikey, 10 January 2011.
- 2010 on the internet: the empire strikes back, Crikey, 23 December 2010.
- It’s network neutrality, but it’s neutered, Crikey, 22 December 2010.
- It’s the NBN Corporate Plan, not a crystal ball, ABC Unleashed, 21 December 2010.
- Letter from: San Francisco, and Bill Clinton on instability, sustainability … and WikiLeaks, Crikey, 10 December 2010.
- Wikileaks could gag sources: Clinton, ZDNet Australia, 10 December 2010.
- WikiLeaks in the clouds: why attempts to shut down Assange will fail, Crikey, 7 December 2010.
- Note to The Australian: Twitter is not a newspaper, Crikey, 2 December 2010.
- Cloud could be ‘privacy enhancing’: Pilgrim, ZDNet Australia, 30 November 2010.
- WikiLeaks slammed by Wikipedia co-founder, disrupted by hacker, Crikey, 29 November 2010.
- NBN Co business case — truly a curiously inadequate document, Crikey, 25 November 2010.
- Gadgets: a geek’s Christmas, Crikey Weekender Christmas Guide 2010 [2.9MB PDF], 19 November 2010.
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: not so evil after all, Crikey, 19 November 2010.
- Online privacy dangers: they’re not what you think, Crikey, 15 November 2010.
- Indonesian e-commerce held back by uncertain laws, Crikey, 11 November 2010 but dated 3 November 2010.
- Senate to re-open bloggers versus journalists, Crikey, 9 November 2010, a lightly-edited version of my post from 7 November 2010.
- Fairfax’s hypocritical web ‘spying devices’ beat-up, Crikey, 8 November 2010.
- Timeline of misinformation: Twitter’s plane crash down to human error, Crikey, 5 November 2010.
- Citizen journalism is dead, long live crowdsourcing, Crikey, 4 November 2010.
- Information Commissioner’s toe in the Government 2.0 waters, Crikey, 2 November 2010.
- The information ‘vacuum’ over secretive ISP data retention scheme, Crikey, 1 November 2010.
- Turnbull v Conroy: how Coalition broadband plan stacks up, Crikey, 28 October 2010.
- ACCC says Optus pitch is misleading, ZDNet Australia, 27 October 2010.
- You know super-fast ain’t so super: Optus, ZDNet Australia, 27 October 2010.
- Cloud security? Better get a lawyer, Son!, ZDNet Australia, dated 14 October 2010 but published 21 October 2010.
- Is Brisbane’s sewer broadband a crock of …?, Crikey, 19 October 2010.
- Coalition objection to NBN opt-out is just scaremongering, Crikey, 7 October 2010.
- How America could censor the internet … or not, Crikey, 29 September 2010.
- NBN: too bold for timid Australia?, ABC Unleashed, 24 September 2010.
- Wireless on the rise, but fixed broadband still does the work, Crikey, 21 September 2010.
- Myths of the NBN myths, ABC Unleashed, 15 September 2010.
- Turnbull’s NBN challenge: real analysis, real policies, not rhetoric, Crikey, 15 September 2010.
- ACMA and Nine demonstrate Australia’s institutionalised racism, ABC Unleashed, 8 September 2010.
- What the NBN will deliver to Windsor’s mob, Crikey, 8 September 2010.
- NSW Parliament’s flawed porn hunt, Crikey, 3 September 2010.
- Nile’s porn excuse doesn’t hold water, Crikey, 2 September 2010.
- Parliament hangs on a broadband fibre, Crikey, 23 August 2010.
- Coalition broadband: a wireless tower in every street, Crikey, 16 August 2010.
- The broadband battle: what will they really deliver?, Crikey, 11 August 2010.
- Will AFACT’s appeal solve anything?, ZDNet Australia, 5 August 2010.
- AFACT didn’t explain notices to iiNet, ZDNet Australia, 4 August 2010.
- Gay marriage an irrelevant sideshow, ABC Unleashed, 4 August 2010.
- A new cable brings the promise of more internet capacity, Crikey, 29 July 2010.
- Let’s blame Facebook again, shall we?, ABC Unleashed, 26 July 2010.
- The internet taking a back seat during the campaign, Crikey, 26 July 2010.
- ‘Open Government’ declared in Australia, Crikey, 20 July 2010.
- Crikey Clarifier: What is cloud computing?, Crikey, 13 July 2010.
- Filter delay: backtracking or backburning?, ABC Unleashed, 9 July 2010.
- The political naivety of the digital elites, ABC Unleashed, 1 July 2010.
- Inside Microsoft’s Security War Room with photo gallery, iTnews, 30 June 2010.
- No wonder the cyber criminals are winning, ABC Unleashed, 24 June 2010.
- NBN not over the line yet, Crikey, 21 June 2010.
- #penrithdebate: O’Farrell 1, Democracy 0, ABC Unleashed, 16 June 2010.
- Turks hack Israeli Facebook accounts over Gaza blockade incident, Crikey, 11 June 2010.
- How evil is Google, exactly?, ABC Unleashed, 9 June 2010.
- Mavi Marmari photos faked by Israel? Probably not, Crikey, 4 June 2010.
- Crikey Clarifier: Why Facebook users are quitting, including me, Crikey, 2 June 2010.
- Startpage: a ‘private’ search engine, but who’ll care?, Crikey, 1 June 2010.
- Letter from Redmond, Washington: inside Microsoft HQ, Crikey, 31 May 2010.
- Crikey Clarifier: Why Google’s reputation went whiffy over Wi-Fi, Crikey, 26 May 2010.
- Thodey’s vision for a hand-held broadband video future, Crikey, 21 May 2010.
- Is it time to close your Facebook account?, ABC Unleashed, 20 May 2010.
- [Budget 2010] IT: more NBN vagueness, border control and cyber-safety re-allocation, Crikey, 12 May 2010.
- NBN: analysts miss the point, ABC Unleashed, 7 May 2010.
- Slow, slow little steps to Government 2.0, Crikey, 4 May 2010.
- Crikey Clarifier: Apple versus Adobe, Crikey, 30 April 2010.
- Google’s got Groggle by the goolies, squeezing hard, Crikey, 29 April 2010.
- Is ACMA chair’s ‘telco hell’ acceptable?, Crikey, 23 April 2010.
- How to fix Refused Classification online: start again, Crikey, 24 March 2010.
- Government 2.0 #fail — spending $43b on an NBN in secret, Crikey, 23 March 2010.
- Health ID cards unleash ‘scary’ Little Brothers, Crikey, 16 March 2010.
- Facebook’s ‘news feed’ patent — just a legal novelty?, Crikey, 4 March 2010.
- How I brought down the Parliament House website, Crikey, 15 February 2010.
- Conroy tells movie industry, ISPs to kiss and make up, Crikey, 8 February 2010.
- iiNet decision a slapdown for AFACT, movie industry, Crikey, 5 February 2010.
- iiTrial: ISPs not responsible for users’ copyright infringement, Crikey, 4 February 2010.
- SA’s Govt 2.0 became mob rule, ZDNet Australia, 4 February 2010.
- Zombie Generation: The spreading infection, ZDNet Australia, 3 February 2010.
- It’s called iPad, and the Kindle is rooted, Crikey, 28 January 2010.
- Clinton declares cyber war on China, Crikey, 22 January 2010.
- Dump Internet Explorer? Stay alert but not alarmed, Crikey, 19 January 2010.
- China isn’t our biggest hacker threat, Crikey, 18 January 2010.
- Bushwalking: cross-check everything, even official advice, Crikey, 15 January 2010.
- The swift takedown of stephenconroy.com.au, Crikey, 21 December 2009.
- 2009: the internet’s watershed year, Crikey, 18 December 2009.
- Evidence-based policy? Not on this filter!, ABC Unleashed, 17 December 2009.
- Internet filtering: first step on the path to Burma?, Crikey, 17 December 2009.
- Conroy’s internet filter: so what?, Crikey, 16 December 2009.
- OECD: publicly funded NBN could pay for itself, Crikey, 14 December 2009.
- Legit Mininova gives no traffic relief, ZDNet Australia, 4 December 2009.
- Is social media killing the web as we know it?, Crikey, 26 November 2009.
- Baffled by Murdersoft? Making sense of Murdoch and Microsoft, Crikey, 25 November 2009.
- Dear Rupert, this is how the internet works. Google it., Crikey, 10 November 2009.
- Are clueless politicians holding IT back?, ZDNet Australia, 3 November 2009.
- ACS filter report just what Conroy needs, ZDNet Australia, 14 October 2009.
- Twitter in court: Why not streaming video?, ZDNet Australia, 9 October 2009.
- Why AFACT v iiNet is important, Crikey, 7 October 2009.
- Conroy’s internet filter dread, Crikey, 28 September 2009.
- Freedom (or freebies) of the press takes another meaning, Crikey, 23 September 2009.
- Crikey Clarifier: What caused Sydney CBD’s Telstra outage?, Crikey, 17 September 2009.
- Great for competition? Or one true NBN?, Crikey, 16 September 2009.
- Telstra has to morph into a different kind of beast, Crikey, 15 September 2009.
- ACMA iTunes and the failure of net filtering, Crikey, 14 September 2009.
- The serious risk of cyber-grooming. Or not, Crikey, 11 September 2009.
- PM’s website hacked? No, just script kiddies, Crikey, 10 September 2009.
- Telstra consigns nowwearetalking to the memory hole, Crikey, 8 September 2009.
- NSW gets its geek on, Crikey, 4 September 2009.
- The Future of Influence: welcome to the confetti economy, Crikey, 3 September 2009.
- Proposed intercept laws could create thousands of “Little Brothers”, Crikey, 31 August 2009.
- They’re building data pipes under the ocean: why no media coverage?, Crikey, 26 August 2009.
- Government 2.0 Taskforce: seeding a cultural revolution, Crikey, 21 August 2009.
- From hype to backlash, Twitter’s path is inevitable, Crikey, 19 August 2009.
- Twitter “40% pointless babble”? What twaddle!, Crikey, 18 August 2009.
- Bug-free computer software: Australia paves the way, Crikey, 13 August 2009.
- Smartphone photos make it easy for stalkers, Crikey, 11 August 2009.
- Elections slip out of newspapers, Crikey, 6 August 2009.
- eCrime: the bad guys pwn the internet, Crikey, 4 August 2009.
- Internet filtering: speed won’t be the issue, Crikey, 27 July 2009.
- Literature? What’s that got to do with the price of books?, Crikey, 21 July 2009.
- Ruddblog: populist masterstroke or full of fail?, Crikey, 17 July 2009.
- Australia’s Digital Economy: discuss it, but not here, Crikey, 16 July 2009.
- Government 2.0 Taskforce: first a logo design contest, Crikey, 23 June 2009.
- Utegate: If the email exists, it’ll be found, Crikey, 22 June 2009.
- We’re all wearing green for Iran now, apparently, Crikey, 18 June 2009.
- Crikey Clarifier: What is spam and where does it come from?, Crikey, 11 June 2009.
- Digital Radio: Who gives a toss? Radio’s dead anyway, Crikey, 29 May 2009.
- OECD: Australia’s broadband is rubbish. Who knew?, Crikey, 22 May 2009.
- Rees on NBN: Gimme gimme gimme!, Crikey, 13 May 2009.
- The Budget? How quaint! They’re just made-up, you know, Crikey, 13 May 2009.
- NBN: Everyone’s got an opinion, Crikey, 9 April 2009.
- NBN: Pricey, but it’s building for the long term, Crikey, 8 April 2009.
- Crikey Clarifier: National Broadband Network, Part 2, Crikey, 8 April 2009.
- A massive and much-needed catch-up, Crikey, 7 April 2009.
- Crikey Clarifier: National Broadband Network, Crikey, 7 April 2009.
- The future of “quality” journalism: lots of questions, few answers, Crikey, 6 April 2009.
- Conroy’s continued lies and gaffes, Crikey, 1 April 2009.
- Conroy’s really bad week #347: Classification Board website hacked, Crikey, 27 March 2009.
- Two thirds of ACMA blacklist out of date, Crikey, 26 March 2009.
- It certainly looks like the ACMA blacklist, eh Senator Conroy?, Crikey, 24 March 2009.
- Yet another ACMA internet blacklist springs a leak, Crikey, 23 March 2009.
- ACMA’s blacklist just got read all over, Crikey, 20 March 2009.
- Well That’s Awkward (The outing of Fake Stephen Conroy), New Matilda, 18 March 2009.
- ACMA issues threats, meets the Streisand Effect, Crikey, 18 March 2009.
- Is the Victorian Government running without data backups?, Crikey, 16 March 2009.
- So Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall is dead… or is it?, Crikey, 2 March 2009. [local copy]
- Outclassed Conroy hides in his bedroom, Crikey, 17 February 2009. [local copy]
- Conroy announces filter-trial ISPs and clams shut, Crikey, 16 February 2009.
- Twitter: enabling the new global rubberneckers, Crikey, 11 February 2009.
- Christian Lobby: The New Lions Of Clean Feed, newmatilda.com, 2 February 2009.
- Google Takes a Slash and the world ends, Crikey, 2 February 2009.
- Who supports compulsory Internet filtering, exactly?, Crikey, 28 January 2009.
- So Conroy’s Internet filter won’t block political speech, eh?, Crikey, 23 January 2009.
- Another nail in the coffin of Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall, Crikey, 15 January 2009.
- The Internet’s feral goldfish get it very wrong, Crikey, 14 January 2009.
- Telstra holds back broadband speeds. Again., Crikey, 12 January 2009. [local copy]
- Conroy attacks BitTorrent: Ruins Australia online, Crikey, 5 January 2009. [local copy]
- Nine quiet on Microsoft hack solutions, Crikey, 18 December 2008.
- The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won’t. Work., Crikey, 17 December 2008.
- Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing, Crikey, 27 November 2008. [local copy]
- @KevinRuddPM stumbles into the Twitterverse, Crikey, 12 November 2008. [local copy]
- The inflated cost of illegally copied DVDs, Crikey, 10 November 2008. [local copy]
- Conroy thoroughly tangled in his own Rabbit-Proof Firewall, Crikey, 30 October 2008. [local copy]
- Cheap tricks not the right response on internet filtering, Crikey, 24 October 2008.
- The Digital Economy: just for big business?, Crikey, 10 September 2008. [local copy]
- Oh no, Google took a photo of my house!, Crikey, 5 August 2008. [local copy]
- The Great Firewall of China: how it works, how to bypass it, Crikey, 31 July 2008. [local copy]
- Internet filters a success, if success = failure, Crikey, 29 July 2008. [local copy]
- Immobilised by Apple’s MobileMe, even without an iPhone, Crikey, 23 July 2008. [local copy]
- Note to “old media” journalists: adapt, or stfu!, Crikey, 16 July 2008. [local edition]
- iPhone mania, coming soon to an Apple geek near you, Crikey, 9 July 2008.
- eBay Australia: Who? Us? Anti-competitive?, Crikey, 29 May 2008.
- Australia’s web 2.0 wipeout on the wave of the future, Crikey, 23 May 2008. [local edition]
- Rudd’s slow digital revolution, Crikey, 14 May 2008.
- Music industry propaganda hits a bum note, Crikey, 6 May 2008.
- eBay faces wrath, ACCC investigation over PayPal move, Crikey, 18 April 2008.
- eBay to customers: we’ll handle your money, it’s for your “protection”, Crikey, 11 April 2008.
- Crikey essay: ABC Playback is a backwards step, Crikey, 31 March 2008.
- Remembering the Space Age: Arthur C Clarke dead at 90, Crikey, 19 March 2008. [local copy]
- Labor’s dream of kid-friendly internet is flawed, Crikey, 20 February 2008. [local copy]
- A torrent of interest in downloading Underbelly, Crikey, 14 February 2008
- Message to Microsoft: You can’t buy cool, Crikey, 4 February 2008
- Angry geeks: “Don’t waste money on internet filters”, Crikey, 17 January 2008 [local edition]
- Why government internet filtering won’t work, Crikey, 11 January 2008
- Social media goes mainstream (except for business and politics), Crikey, 17 December 2007. [local edition]
- 2007: The (second) last TV election, Crikey, 29 October 2007. [local edition]
- Coonan kicks own goals over ICT strategies, Crikey, 5 October 2007. [local edition]
- Sputnik 2: The space age Australia never had, Crikey, 3 October 2007
- Kirribilli house: yours for $15, Crikey, 15 September 2007
- Wikipedia and the PM — the trail is still hot, Crikey, 4 September 2007
- Failing the Citizenship Test, Crikey, 27 August 2007. [local edition]
- Why MySpace for grown-ups won’t fly, Crikey, 13 August 2007. [related article]
- Blackle: a “green computing” furphy?, Crikey, 31 July 2007. [local edition]
- Howard should be au fait with this internet thingy by now, Crikey, 20 June 2007. [related article]
- Telstra blocks porn but opens a can of worms, newmatilda.com, 1 December 2004
- Black Holes, Science Journal, number 32. Adelaide: Prince Alfred College, 1976.
- Silicon Life, Science Journal, number 31. Adelaide: Prince Alfred College, 1975.
Books
- Johann Jackson, Ray Jobling, Rod LeNaine Smith, Tony Porter, Andrew Scheer and Stilgherrian. Tutoring: Staff Development Techniques. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1983. ISBN 0 644 00497 5.
- Rod LeNaine-Smith. Report-writing Program, 3rd edition. Adelaide: Department of Transport Australia, 1982. (Editor and Designer)
Letters
- (untitled feedback item), New Scientist, 6 October 2007. [local copy]
- (untitled feedback item), New Scientist, 18 November 2006.
- Dogs’ hidden costs, New Scientist, 14 May 2005.
- (untitled letter), Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 2004.
- (untitled letter), New Scientist, 21 August 2004.
Magazines
- Features Editor & Managing Partner: The Core, numbers 1 to 86. Adelaide: Core Productions, 1991–1993.
- Editor: Bread and Circuses, numbers 1 to 27. Adelaide: Students Association of the University of Adelaide, 1979–1980.
- The Sun (SCA newspaper). Adelaide: self-published, dates TBA.
- Cornerstone: The Quarterly Publication of the Shire/Barony of Innilgard. Adelaide: Society for Creative Anachronism, October 1985 (AS XX) to April 1987 (AS XXI).
Zines:
- Psychopathic Silverfish. Adelaide: self-published, 22 May 1986
- hordes of one-legged seagulls. Adelaide: self-published, 22 December 1985
- Menu for a Palm Court Café. Adelaide: self-published, October 1985
- The Fornt Coover. Adelaide: self-published, June 1985
- The Exact Re-wording, numbers 1, 2, 2.1, 3. Adelaide: self-published, 1985?
- …to cast a shadow, number 2. Adelaide: self-published, 31 May 1980.
- to light a candle…, number 1. Adelaide: self-published, 30 March 1980.
Multimedia
Both iRadio and FastStart Asia Pacific would have been called “podcasts” had that word been in currency at the time. Both programs were used for internal marketing within the corporations concerned.
- Producer: FastStart Asia Pacific, 6 episodes. Sydney (distributed online throughout the Asia-Pacific region): IBM Australia Limited, August 2003–October 2004.
- Producer: iRadio, 4 episodes. Sydney (distributed nationally online and on audio CD: Telstra Corporation Limited, February 2002–February 2003.
this!zine™ was an award-winning CD-ROM magazine for the youth market produced by Big Hand Asia Pacific Pty Ltd, a joint venture between the Fairfax media group and Big Hand Inc of Dallas, Texas (as far as I know they have no connection with BigHand Digital Dictation).
- Editor: this!zine, issue 1. Sydney: Big Hand Asia Pacific, February 1996.
- Associate Editor / Associate Producer: this!zine, issue 0. Sydney: Big Hand Asia Pacific, November 1995.
Papers
- Gay & Lesbian Internet Users: Trends and Implications. Sydney: CitySearch Australia, 1998. (unpublished confidential research)
Presentations (Conferences & Seminars)
- What do journos do better, exactly?: Media 140 Sydney, Sydney, 5–6 November 2009.
- Risk, Fear and Paranoia: Perspective, People!: NSW Sphere, Sydney, 4 September 2009.
- The Parable of the Topless Gnome: Cultural imperialism and censorship in a global world: SoGiKII: Law, Communication Technologies and Culture Conference, Sydney, 9 June 2009.
- The Importance of Authenticity: WebForward@CeBIT, Sydney, 14 May 2009.
- Social Media and the Federal Election 2007: PodCamp Perth 07, Perth, 27 October 2007.
- The information power of multi-media: a strategic key to increase sales and profits: Capture & Use Information for Effective Targeted Marketing, IIR Conferences, Sydney, 26–26 March 1996.
- Harnessing the power of marketing through this!zine: a live presentation: Youth Marketing, IIR Conferences, Sydney, 29 May 1996.
Radio
I worked in radio full time from 1982 to 1992 in various roles, and dabbled over the years since then. This list includes some of the highlights.
- Station Manager: Three D Radio 93.7 FM. Adelaide: Progressive Music Broadcasting Association Inc, April 1994–March 1995.
- Presenter (with Scott Thompson): Club Escape. Adelaide: Triple J.
- Producer: Radio 5AN. Adelaide: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 1985–February 1992.
Television
- More allegations against Murdoch media, 7.30. Sydney (broadcast Australia-wide): ABC TV, 12 July 2011. (Interviewee)
- Internet filter postponed for more review, Lateline. Sydney (broadcast Australia-wide): ABC TV, 9 July 2010. (Interviewee)
- Govt’s website black list leaked on internet, Lateline. Sydney (broadcast Australia-wide): ABC TV, 19 March 2009. (Interviewee)
- Pornography on the Internet, Sex/Life. Sydney (broadcast Australia-wide): Channel 10, Beyond International, October 1996. (Interviewee)
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Whoah!
I’ve known you for 18 years and never knew you got Bread & Circuses off the ground. Is this true? Not a bad effort at all, if so. Care to tell us a bit about it?
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Ah, I see.
I read “Editor: numbers 1 to 27″ and made the deduction. -
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