Archive - Ciaran's Crispy Cogitations

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

November 2022

Launching 6 December 2022

Nov 18, 2022 •

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