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• Launching “Stilgherrian > Melbourne 2016”

  27 September 2016 in Conversations, Media, The 9pm Edict

  I need your help so I can Go To Melbourne To Make Things. Yes, Melbourne. In October. I’ve just launched my fifth Pozible crowdfunding campaign to fund a trip with two purposes. Cover Ruxcon 2016, one of Australia’s key information security conferences, on 22-23 October. I’ll make a Corrupted Nerds podcast like last time, and […]

• Weekly Wrap 330: More spring, more cybers, less pain

  25 September 2016 in Weekly Wrap

  My week of Monday 19 to Sunday 25 September 2016 was the first in more than three weeks where I spent a day without any painkillers. Four days, in fact. Whether it was that, some of the other medical activities, the continuing springing of Spring, certain other factors, or some combination thereof, it was also […]

• Talking the Yahoo data breach on ABC Radio National Drive

  25 September 2016 in Conversations, Internet, Media, Privacy

  Yahoo was the victim of the biggest data breach in history, at least so far, so it was inevitable that I ended up talking about it in the media. This is my conversation with Jonathan Green on ABC Radio National Drive on Friday night. Yahoo has confirmed the theft of user data including e mail […]

• Talking The Code and smart cars on ABC 774 Melbourne

  25 September 2016 in Conversations, Internet, Media

  I haven’t made a big deal of being technology consultant for the new series of the ABC TV drama The Code — at least not here — but we decided to talk about that on ABC 774 Melbourne on Thursday night. The conversation with Casey Bennetto also included some of the recent news about self-driving […]

• Weekly Wrap 329: Plenty of cybers as spring unfolds

  18 September 2016 in Weekly Wrap

  My week of Monday 12 to Sunday 18 September 2016 started to see a return to productivity after the pain of previous weeks. There were also some shifts on the personal front, but I’ll keep them to myself for the time being. On with the show… Articles Australia’s cybersecurity skills make it a destination for […]