A few recent Risky Business podcasts have been sponsored by Thinkst and they have been plugging their Canary tools. Basically, little honeypots that sit on your network and sends an alert when something tries to access them. To me, the idea sounded pretty cool but when I looked at their …

Recently I've spent a little too much time thinking about open source licenses.

Whenever I start a new project I struggled to pick a license, there are dosens open source licenses that are all more or less the same. In fact worese than being the same many licenses that have …

I've long been a fan of the advice from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) [previously the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)]. Not too long ago they changed their "Top 4" to their "Essential Eight".

What I like about ASD's advice is that it's easy to read, in comparison ISO 27001:2013 …

I recently purchased my grandfather's house which he built himself in the mid 1950s. My fiancé and I were painting the house and we came across a pipe sticking out of the wall just above the rain water tank.

Looking inside the roof we discoved that this pipe came from …

I've just finished listening to the audio book of Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free. It's a fascinating read and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in copyright.

Admittedly some bits are a little repetitive but it really hammers home how broken the current copyright system is and …