This isn’t really a blog post in the normal sense. I got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 31, primarily as a result of seeing other people talk about ADHD and realising that their experiences strongly resonated with me. Part of the medical diagnosis process involved me putting together a list of symptoms I experienced. Since then this list has proven useful when talking to other people who think they might have ADHD, as a reference point. It only occurred to me today that I should probably just make the list...
Content warning: this post contains references to online stalking, doxxing, harassment, and deadnaming.
I have a lot of opinions about copyright and the DMCA, but a vanishingly small proportion of those opinions are particularly unique or notable. There are plenty of people who are far better qualified than I to opine about the state of copyright law at a structural level, and I will not presume that I could write anything on the matter that would be contributory.
I do, however, have direct experience...
SwiftOnSecurity asked “What would you change in Windows?”. There are a lot of replies to the thread, and I read them all. I have some of my own thoughts, too, but it was too much for a bunch of Twitter replies, and I think it’s probably useful to collate everything I saw in the thread (or at least the ones that I agree with - some of them are a bit wild) into one place. So without further ado, here’s what I would change in Windows:
Finish the new settings UI
The new settings system was a recurring theme...
I just hit 100,000 reputation on Information Security StackExchange! 🎉
I thought this would be a good moment to talk about why StackExchange is so important to me, and what my journey into security looked like. The story starts way back in 2012, before I worked in infosec. Back then I was a few months out of university, having studied for a computing degree (basically compsi + dev management), working my first job as an entry-level developer. I had already been interested in security for over a decade by...