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Fiction & Creative Writing

Stories & Writing

Short fiction, poetry, and longer narrative work exploring technology, identity, and the human condition.

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

Written at 36,000 feet. No escape from myself. In dreams they lay, awake While thoughts pierced their soul A thousand knives at once Is all …

January 2026
The Room in the Elephant

The Room in the Elephant

Introduction This is a reflection borne out of the lyric: “The elephant in the room is that my room is in the elephant.” from …

July 2025
Shadowboxing

Shadowboxing

Poem about internal struggles

August 2023
After All You’ve Done

After All You’ve Done

Poem about putting myself first

January 2023
You Did Your Best

You Did Your Best

Poem about the impact of narcissistic parents

December 2022
Recent Posts
The Bigger the Judge, the Better the Judgment? Not Quite.
The Bigger the Judge, the …

A few days ago, I published High Confidence Is Not a Security Control, having spent some time looking at JEV, a specialised decision model, and the security implications of allowing probabilistic AI judgments to drive consequential actions. The concern was straightforward: a model receives evidence, …

October 8, 2026 Read
"High Confidence" Is Not a Security Control
"High Confidence" Is Not …

AI security tooling keeps getting faster. Faster triage, faster classification, faster threat intelligence analysis, faster decisions. And, increasingly, faster automated action. That’s exciting, but it’s also where things start getting dangerous. I’ve been looking at JEV recently, …

October 2, 2026 Read
'A Human Should Check It' is Not an Agentic Security Control
'A Human Should Check It' …

A little while ago I demonstrated something fairly simple. An attacker-controlled HTTP User-Agent value was ingested into Microsoft Sentinel as part of normal security telemetry. Security Copilot then consumed that telemetry while analysing the incident. The User-Agent contained an indirect prompt …

September 30, 2026 Read
Continuous Access Evaluation: Is it really tho?
Continuous Access …

This is a personal blog and all content herein is my own opinion and not that of my employer. Background Continuous Access Evaluation, or CAE, is one of those security controls with a wonderfully descriptive name. Access is not supposed to be evaluated only when you first authenticate. It is …

September 16, 2026 Read
Daddy Issues: When APIM Workspaces Inherit the Parent Identity
Daddy Issues: When APIM …

This is a personal blog and all content herein is my own opinion and not that of my employer. Introduction Sometimes security research starts with an exploit. Sometimes it starts with a much more boring question: “Where is the actual security boundary?” This one started with the latter. …

September 14, 2026 Read
What The Entra Fudge?! Tenant Restrictions v1 Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
What The Entra Fudge?! …

If you implemented Tenant Restrictions v1 and only validated Restrict-Access-To-Tenants, you may only have implemented half the control you think you have.

August 19, 2026 Read
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