Ciaran's Crispy Cogitations

Ancient Babylon, AI, and Cyber Security

A four-thousand year old legal principle is critical to sorting out the increasingly messy and misunderstood interface between frontier AI and cyber…

21 hrs ago • Ciaran Martin

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Welcome to FUD-tier AI!

The newsletter charting the wild ride of Frontier AI through the world of cyber security

Sep 2 • Ciaran Martin

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August 2026

Control. Ownership. Perspective.

Three lessons from the latest AI cyber security testing problems

Aug 5 • Ciaran Martin

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July 2026

From Frenzy to Freakout

AI and the New Wave of Cyber FUD

Jul 29 • Ciaran Martin

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January 2024

On the matter of the British Library cyber incident

The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity in other vital…

Jan 20, 2024 • Ciaran Martin

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January 2023

Lessons from Down Under's Data Disasters Pt. 3

We still need to talk about ransoms. And do some serious policy work about them.

Jan 17, 2023 • Ciaran Martin

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December 2022

Some constitutional cogitations from Cardiff

The aggressive Anglocentric British nationalism of the post-2016 period doesn't work for the wider UK, especially Northern Ireland. I looked at why, and…

Dec 22, 2022 • Ciaran Martin

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Lessons from Down Under's Data Disasters, Pt 2

Many of the problems in cyber security are economic and social, not technical. And digitisation privatises public risk like never before. That's why…

Dec 20, 2022 • Ciaran Martin

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Five Lessons from Down Under's Data Disasters: Part One

The lessons from the Medibank and Optus data breaches are vast, varied and vital. The first in a five part series argues that we lost our way figuring…

Dec 6, 2022 • Ciaran Martin

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November 2022