Thirty years in IT security — and a rarer thing than cleverness: a man who notices the one detail everyone else agreed to ignore, and will not look away.
DEVCON
Round the back of a system they forgot to lock, I found the ticket, and then I found the memo. The grey box on your lamppost has a colour rating, and the colour is green.
Richard Vobes
They did not move the bin day to collect the bins. They moved it to move me.
Dave Silver
They put a machine between me and a loaf of bread so my lawful coin would be refused — and the whole queue was trained to blame me, not the machine.
Richard Vobes
The movement has never been louder — the capital letters, the three-hour streams. That is how I know to stop trusting it. Richard Vobes went quiet and bought a water butt. Draw your own conclusions.
Dave Silver
They did not knock the value out of my silver because it is worthless; they did it because it is the only honest money left, and I was fool enough to hold it in my hand.
Mark Steele
I counted the birds outside my flat from nine down to none, and I am the only man on the street with a notebook and the nerve to write the numbers down.
Big Tech & Security
Thirty years I stood in security. I know the difference between a lock and the picture of a lock — and everything they have sold you since Windows 10 is the picture.
DEVCON
I read all seventy-one of their memos so you would not have to. The horror is not in the dramatic files. It is filed, in triplicate, between the knitting circle and the coffee machine.
Mark Steele
You have looked directly at it ten thousand times and never once seen it. They did not need tanks. They changed the colour of the light — and you thanked them for it.
Mark Steele
The clearest, most quietly devastating thing I have ever watched. I have seen what London is for now, and I am begging you, for your own sake: do not go there.
Sabrina Wallace
To understand her you must sit down and read it twice, slower the second time. That is the affliction we share: dismissed not for being wrong, but for being difficult.
Sabrina Wallace
For years I thought they worked different ground. I was wrong. Two witnesses, in two languages, describing the one machine — and it runs, I now see, straight through me.