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How I Dorked My Way Into Meeting With Canadian cybercrime
27 Nov 2024 · 9 min read · google-dorks · ethical-hacking

How I Dorked My Way Into Meeting With Canadian cybercrime

How I Dorked My Way Into Meeting With Canadian cybercrime

Becoming a First-Time Author and Pivoting in Your Career
16 Nov 2024 · 4 min read · career-pivot · first-time-author

Becoming a First-Time Author and Pivoting in Your Career

A reflection on becoming a first-time author and pivoting careers, highlighting challenges, growth, and lessons for others considering similar journeys.

Copilot Studio Chatbots want EVERYONE to talk to them - here’s what you can do about it
3 Aug 2024 · 5 min read · power-platform · copilot-studio

Copilot Studio Chatbots want EVERYONE to talk to them - here’s what you can do about it

Chatbot too chatty, wants everyone to talk to it. Don’t let it!

Study Guide: Google certified Professional Cloud Architect
21 Jul 2024 · 4 min read · cloud · google

Study Guide: Google certified Professional Cloud Architect

Study Guide: Google certified Professional Cloud Architect

ALL your bitlocker keys for all your devices are public to your tenant
28 Jun 2024 · 7 min read · bitlocker · rbac

ALL your bitlocker keys for all your devices are public to your tenant

Surprising and shocking RBAC discoveries and why you need to pay close attention to RBAC role permissions - especially those the vendor manages!

Fixing iPhone WiFi issues in iOS 17.2
15 Jan 2024 · 2 min read · apple · wifi

Fixing iPhone WiFi issues in iOS 17.2

I had been having frustrating issues with connectivity on my iPhone lately - here is how I fixed them!

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Somewhere Over Europe

Some ideas arrive fully formed. Others sort of… leak in.

This one started somewhere between Beijing and Stockholm, half-rewatching Inception on a plane, half-asleep, and very much not trying to have any original thoughts.

There’s a scene in that film about dream architecture. …

April 26, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 3): Defending Against Runtime Abuse
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


This is Part 3 of a 3-part series.

Part Title
Part 1 The Leak, the Context, and the Framework …

April 2, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 2): Mapping the Trust Boundaries and the Attack Tree
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


This is Part 2 of a 3-part series.

Part Title
Part 1 The Leak, the Context, and the Framework …

April 2, 2026 Read
The Model Isn't the Risk. The Harness Is (Part 1): The Leak, the Context, and the Framework
The Model Isn't the Risk. …

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This is a personal blog and all content herein is my personal opinion and not that of my employer.


The Procurement TL;DR

If you are buying or integrating an AI Agent platform today, ignore the “magic” demos. Ask these three questions:

  1. How is my …

March 31, 2026 Read
OID-See v1.1.0: External Identity Posture, iOS Support, and New Auth Methods
OID-See v1.1.0: External …

This is a personal blog and all content herein is my own opinion and not that of my employer.


OID-See v1.1.0 is out

v1.0.1 tightened the scoring.

v1.1.0 expands what OID-See can actually see.

This is the biggest release since the initial drop: a new external identity posture surface, a fully …

March 31, 2026 Read
Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure: What I’d Do Differently (and Why Your Database Probably Isn’t the Problem)
Self-Hosting Umami on …

Self-Hosting Umami on Netlify + Azure

Prisma fights, pgcrypto drama, CSP facepalms, cold starts… and assumptions with teeth


TL;DR

I set out to self-host Umami analytics for this website using:

  • Netlify (Next.js runtime - I already host my site here so it made sense to me!)
  • Azure PostgreSQL Flexible …

March 25, 2026 Read
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