Metrics for vulnerability prioritization for Microsoft products
I set out to find out if publicly available data could provide additional or, better yet, stronger indicators for vulnerability prioritization than the de fa...
Articles, posts, and random musings
Face the thing that should not be,
Prompted by a recent tweet requesting to share early career mistakes, I decided to reply with a bit more detail than what can fit in a single tweet. I hope t...
Performance comparison of a fork-heavy bash script on WSL vs native Linux
I was doing a simple conversion between dataformats in the simplest and fastest way I could: some sed, tr, awk and good ol’ bash scripts. While doing my conv...
An honest car salesman
How to sum up succinctly the introspection, discussions, internal debates, and shifts in world view that has I’ve gone through in the past year.
Learning through the heel
It's a common Finnish idiom; it's effectively the same as "learning it the hard way", but I love the more visceral feeling of our version.
Blaming is boring, focus on fixing
It’s been a while since I last did a rant post, but this is something I need to vent about: I am sick of the cop-out that “the user is of course the weakest ...
Re: Re: Re: Discovering yourself
I realized I want to take care of people, not focus on generating revenue. If you want to follow along how I got to this revelation, read on.
Finding your own Flask of Mana
A train of thought status update that morphed into a post about recuperating mentally from pushing around imaginary bits.
0day - Fair game in pentesting?
I argue that using 0day exploits in a pentesting engagement is fair game if you happen upon such a scenario.
Privacy and security with vaccinations and babysteps
Privacy and security can be overwhelming. A common feeling is that 100% is impossible to reach and thus a sort of depressive nihilism takes over and people e...
Contributing to open-source isn’t just about code
Coding is hot. Documentation is mandatory paperwork. But sometimes having paperwork makes all the difference.
Take account of your skills to combat impostor syndrome
Impostor syndrome is a common pestilence amongst IT folks — many of whom are self-taught through trial & error. What it means that you constantly feel un...
Act. Inspire. Motivate. Act.
I read an interesting concept today: action leads to inspiration, which leads to motivation, which leads to more action.
Hello my name is Jack, and I want do everything
I have a wide range of different interests that I have a compelling need to somehow join in a Grand Project…
What do you want to be known for?
I’ve been thinking about a lot of things but mainly about how I could become a KPI — key person of influence — within my industry.
Vulnerability research of the personal kind
In a world of ultra competitive, apparently transparent labor markets everyone needs to shine brighter than everyone else. How about a wholly different appro...
On the good opinion of others and how it drives us
According to Peter Sage most people spend the majority of their lives being driven by how others see you — or rather, how you assume them seeing you.
Why should anyone care about my goals?
If you are wise and skilful, you are busy. That is a fact. Not busy as in not having any time, but needing a proper reason for divvying that time for someone...
Why I’m looking for a mentor in DFIR/RE
I am currently navigating outside of my comfort zone of 10+ years. I have both figuratively and literally moved to foreign lands.
Elegance and Pragmatism
Different groups require different virtues. Development focuses on elegance and operations on pragmatism. Sometimes these are in conflict.