On April 15th the US dropped a load of sanctions on Russia for election interference, and hacking, and generally being Russia. There is a lot of good info to unpack from the sanctions, but for now let’s look at the way Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, has responded to being called Cozy Bear. (Hint: […]
SolarWind, enough with the password already!
This is a much delayed discussion on the complexity and nuance of the SolarWind hack. The simplistic and wrong messaging from some quarters of the infosec community has resulted in an atrocious misunderstanding of the hack in the public sphere. This has extended into the policy world as these bad takes are treated as cogent […]
Why Backdoor the Golden Goose?
Why I don’t think Huawei will install back doors in 5G telco equipment — it would be a forced error when they are poised to achieve a win that will give them a strategic advantage for years and maybe decades to come. I don’t think they want to backdoor everything. That’s a sort of crude […]