| Freedom Fighters (Part 3) | article | Commentary on the changing role of cybsersecurity from an organisational, procedural practice to an ideological calling and resistance movement. What does it mean for global civic stability if the US is abandoning civil cyber security for a centralised technofascist system? | Thu Apr 17 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: cyber security is moving from a purely technical art to a political craft | Tags: cybersecurity civics digital-coup resistance technofascism infosec doge cve blog
| We Love USA | article | Europe can help USA restore democracy by helping to end BigTech. | Thu Apr 10 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: solidarity | Tags: usa us-coup social-harm propaganda friendship special-relations shared-values action european-tech
| You're too stupid for technology. | article | Supposedly freedom-respecting organisations like Mozilla and Ubuntu take an increasingly disdainful and obtuse attitude. | Sun Jul 14 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Patronising, cavalier and superior tech culture. | Tags: arrogance down-talk disrespect opaqueness bad-attitude
| Technology and madness | article | The pyschogenic (crazymanking) qualities of ubiquitous and quiescent digital technology | Sat Jul 21 2018 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Paranoia and even sychosis is a natural reaction to certain forms of technology we intrinsically recognise as a predatory threat. | Tags: psychology evolution threat-identification stress madness toxic-tech
| Political thinking on the Cybershow | article | The Cybershow is not about Software Freedom, it is such an obvious good we simply assume the necessity of it. | Fri Mar 20 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: politics, morals and common sense | Tags: meta difference disputation democracy politics foundational-ideas software-freedom digital-rights solidarity alignment cybershow entertainment
| Computer security is a political struggle | article | Struggle for technological security is a new cold-war, not fough between super-power nation-states but beteen entirely new blocs of power. | Wed Jul 03 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Technology is politics | Tags: power democracy people self-determination politics security freedom
| Sorrybots: Rise of the apology industry | article | Saying sorry doesn't fix anything | Sat Sep 06 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Why try when you can just apologise? | Tags: software-engineering failure service-industry help-and-informaton public-relations
| A shortwave radio message from the last man on Earth | article | What comes after Big Tech and Internet 1.0? | Fri Jan 10 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Internet of the future | Tags: disintegration splinternet failing-communication internet digital-sovereignty post-america
| Seven for a secret never to be told | article | A robust and carefully argued defence of passwords as a superior form of digital security. | Sun Sep 29 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: What you know will always be the most powerful form of security | Tags: trust timeless-craft trendy-security-fads fashion industry passwords-rock
| A coming cybersecurity schism? | article | Pretending that we all have a common understanding and shared interest in one vision of security is getting harder. We must re-find our commonality or admit our differences out loud. | Sun May 19 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Different interests each interpret the idea of security their own way | Tags: divergence difference values social-bonds cybersecurity
| Scamicry: Deliberately putting customers at risk | article | Companies confuse customers and put them at risk by behaving like scammers | Fri Feb 23 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Large corporations and cybercriminals are increasingly indistinguishable | Tags: scams communication phishing branding reputation trust
| Rossfest | article | Cybershow went to Cambridge uni compsci to remember a great man | Sun Apr 06 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Memorial gathering at Cambridge for Ross Anderson | Tags: cybersecurity infosec womenintech rossfest cambridge security-engineering memorial
| Rorschach Computing | article | "AI" can't compute | Tue Jan 20 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: systems that tell you what you want to hear and show you what you want to see offer nothing new or useful | Tags: psychology "AI" patternicity expectation heuristics
| The new meaning of robots.txt | article | A robots.txt file should warn crawlers of countermeasures | Sun Feb 22 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: deterrence proportionality digital self defence boundaries crawlers robots
| Time to pull the plug? Or just rewire it? | article | Action groups opposing toxic tech, "AI" and technofascism are growing in size and number | Fri Feb 27 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: protest, boycott, vocal opposition to "AI" | Tags: nil
| Cybersecurity is a resistance movement | article | Commentary on the changing role of cybsersecurity from a procedural practice to an ideological calling and resistance movement. What does it mean for global civic stability if the US is abandoning cybersecurity? | Sat Apr 05 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: The changing nature of cyber-defence and new kinds of enemies | Tags: cybersecurity politics resistance technofascism infosec civics digital-coup doge
| Reflective practice in cybersecurity | article | Cybersecurity could benefit from reflective practice, a tool used in medical, military and other service disciplines | Sun Mar 03 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Thinking and talking about our mistakes makes us stronger | Tags: reflective-practice education research training self-critique lessons-learned
| Bum education | article | Schools and universities are failing to offer the necessary foundation for a technological society | Tue Dec 02 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Digital literacy is getting worse, "AI" and eductech is to blame | Tags: compsci education degeneracy
| Principles not products | article | For complex reasons commercial products cannot secure the digital domain. The role of education, culture and government are the more important. | Thu Apr 04 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Why we need more top-down security engineering. | Tags: education knowledge-is-power choice self-defence responsibility-to-know
| Poison Code | article | Lone developers and small software companies are vulnerable to hostile actors trying to take-over to use their code as a malware platform | Sat Apr 06 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Infiltration by hostile actors | Tags: trust supply-chain social-engineering developers vulnerability hostile-forks hostile-takeover malware coercion
| Technology Plan B | article | "AI" is a political assault on the human so its financial collapse will be huge opportunity for humane tech | Mon Mar 02 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Self-esteem in the age of machines | Tags: human-value software-freedom contingency AI-bubble labour power dehumanisation suicide
| Any space will do | article | meeting in non-commercial free, real places is essential for a healthy society | Sun Feb 15 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: human meeting spaces are the foundation of peaceful society | Tags: film place race offline solidarity community healing commons
| Security Scarecrows: Why cybersecurity without pentesting is like piloting without a plane. | article | For many security personnel the distance between what they know they should do and what they're allowed to do is immensely frustrating. | Tue Feb 20 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Tokenism and security theatre | Tags: security-theatre placebo decoy sidelining moral-injury frustration professionalism
| You Are Not The Only One | article | Telling people that they are the only one having a problem is standard practice for tech organisations that wish to force their world-view upon others | Wed May 22 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Gaslighting by technology companies or governments to make people feel stupid | Tags: isolation divide-and-conquer misinformation gaslighting
| Not one of us | article | An account of sofware freedom and security as everyday action | Wed Jan 01 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: US tech leaders behave disgracefully and make other technologists feel ashamed of what we do by association. | Tags: technology behaviour freedom humane-technology technofascism stereotypes quiet-struggle-for-good
| Rethinking AI images on The Cybershow | article | Why we decided to stop using "AI" for episode cover images | Fri Mar 22 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Reflection and change of heart on "AI" visual arts | Tags: noai art integrity authenticity solidarity
| Creepy is the new cool | article | Avoidance, denial and expressed emotion around digital technology | Fri Apr 25 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Is normalising of technologial horror the unspoken new job of the media? | Tags: social-harm propaganda "AI" psychology technofascism anti-humanism normalising airbrushing-harms
| Moral competence | article | A Heideggerian account of moral competence as what technofascism seeks to annihilate. Moral competence is therefore a powerful weapon in the fight against technofascism. | Sun Apr 26 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Calm and quiet moral competence of the few must overcome dizzy excitement of of capital | Tags: psychology nonchalance morals competence seriousness technofascism foreign-influence hegemony domination
| An unfortunate miscalculation of capital. | article | "AI" technology is fundamentally undermining education. For all it's material splendour capitalism seems to be eating itself very rapidly now. | Wed Apr 17 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: "AI" by killing education will surely prove Karl Marx correct | Tags: education politics economics sustainability education collapse
| Technical Maturity | article | As we get older we think about technology differently, and that is good. | Wed Aug 20 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Mature thinking about technology comes with age and experience | Tags: technology ageing douglas-adams truth philosophy critique
| Always crashing in the same car | article | : Bad technology is a preventable social harm. Genuine informed democratic choice in technology and planning is essential for a safe sustainable future | Mon Jan 05 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: technology is as much about choice as capability | Tags: technology choice ethics education influence policy planning democracy
| Tender Love and Care (for our technology) | article | Why fixing things is a joy and a way to help the planet | Mon Dec 15 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: right-to-repair maintenance ownership rights capitalism
| Security is love | article | nil | Fri Feb 23 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: nil
| The New Digital Literacy | article | We must create empowering language to fight technofascism | Sun Mar 01 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: The importance of literacy for understanding technology | Tags: democracy technology language action civic cybersecurity technofascism
| The Oracle and the Librarian | article | "AI" search is very different from traditional indexing and cannot substitute for it without grave harms to the knowledge ecology | Sun Aug 24 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Search is qualitatively different from language model inference and summary | Tags: information-science epistemology truth propaganda search "AI"
| Trouble at Mill | article | Trust in technology cannot be implied by trade and other political alliances. The global order is changing and we must adapt trust models in cybsersecurity too. | Wed Mar 19 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Layer 10 and the new international zero-trust reality | Tags: cybersecurity bigtech digital-sovereignty digital-independence zero-trust
| Inappropriate language | article | Rob Pike was right to be offended by fake AI praise. Fake-people (language models) can't be sincere. | Mon Dec 29 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: shallowness and insincerity | Tags: language ethics depth psychology sincerity
| Why I'm Not Suing Anthropic | article | reflections on massive scraping by "AI" companies | Tue Jan 20 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: The worst kind of criminals | Tags: intellectual-property corporate-theft scraping bots
| Psychoanalysis in reverse | article | How digital technology makes people mentally unwell | Sat Nov 22 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Negative psychological effects of connected tech | Tags: mental-health wellness software AI politics society
| The Hill | article | Technology is not neutral. It has character flaws. Meet Williams. | Tue Mar 20 2018 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Malevolent takeover | Tags: "AI" persona usurping insidiousness sidling tech-critique film drama
| The WWW declares the end of Google | article | Favouring "AI" and military contracts Google has abandoned its mission to "organise the world's information". | Mon May 20 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Google is no longer synonymous with Web | Tags: change brands google www slop search
| Good tech never dies | article | All durable and good things become public commons-culture in the end | Sun Mar 01 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Retro and vintage arcade entertainment is timeless and lives on | Tags: retro-games arcade fun maintenance repair restoration gaming entertainment computing culture retro
| Freedom Fighters (Part I) | article | An account of sofware freedom and security as everyday action | Sat Feb 22 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Defending technology for social good means becoming a freedom fighter | Tags: freedom resistance choice activism technofascism free-software quiet-struggle
| Flipping the cybersecurity narrative | article | Civic cybersecurity needs us to evolve our language and culture about security and threats. We must decide what we value and want to protect. It is much more than just personal data that's at risk. | Thu Jun 06 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Civic cybersecurity | Tags: fear shame power community conviviality civic-cybersecurity
| Fantasy versus reality | article | "AI" is just the most recent step in a fugue from reality | Sun Mar 22 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: reality-confrontation gamification realpolitik landing-with-a-bump
| What "AI" means now | article | "AI" is a now term of propaganda not technology | Fri Apr 10 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: The meaning of "AI" becomes clearer. It has nothing to do with progress. | Tags: words meaning epistemology propaganda technology definition change
| Code Exploits | article | Slave-like conditions of exploitation are moving from the factories of far-eastern hardware manufacure to western software houses. | Fri Apr 12 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: capitalism, exploitation and working conditions | Tags: exploitation labour unions human-cost job-satisfaction happiness security
| Endpoint sovereignty | article | The CrowdStrike outage was just the beginning of a sea-change in computer security. Either we actively own and defend our technology, or someone else will take it from us. | Sat Jun 22 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Property, ownership, vare and responsibility | Tags: property ownership rights control repsonsibility private
| AI and the election: a voters guide | article | Mass communication of social media plus "AI" is a deadly cocktail that undermines democracy. How do we fight back against it and take a slower more thoughtful approach? | Sat Jan 20 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: psychological attacks on democracy | Tags: influence the-algorithm social-media propaganda agitation fake-news
| Death to efficiency | article | A critique of the word 'efficieny' as a political football | Mon Feb 17 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: efficiency is over-rated excuse for greed and laziness | Tags: efficiency excuses dehumanisation technofascism propaganda
| In the era of dubious contraptions | article | Is risk just the cost of innovation? Can we afford to let some people play fast and loose with the stability of civilisation when only profit is their real motoive? | Thu Nov 28 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Risk taking in tech development is growing | Tags: trust competence risk real-knowledge opinion cavalier
| How do we teach Digital Self-Defence? | article | What do people think about personal responsibility in protecting themselves from malcious hackers and spying? Who should organise and pay for anti-cybercrime education? | Sat Nov 04 2023 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Practicalities of civic cybersecurity and digital self defence | Tags: education civic-cybersecurity digital-self-defence voxpops public-opinion
| Eating your own dog food | article | nil | Tue Jan 14 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: nil
| Radical disbelief and its causes | article | ** | Tue Oct 08 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: epistemic crisis | Tags:
| Bistrotech: The Riddle Of The Cubes | article | How technology fails the food and hospitality industry | Mon Sep 22 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Fancy techno gimmicks in catering and hospitality | Tags: food hospitality scams software service-industry payments point-of-sale coercion fraud
| Gemini Adventures | article | Building a Gemini Capsule for Cybershow | Tue Apr 21 2026 | nil | nil | Format: news | Theme: meta development | Tags: emacs org-mode gemini-protocol
| Digital Inclusion Coffee Morning Part 2: Wake up and smell the exclusion. | article | Our digital inclusion coffee morning revealed huge cracks in British technological society that fails to serve older, young and less able citizens. | Thu Oct 02 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: taking back tech for the people | Tags: strategy diversity digital-sovereignty antifascist politics freesoftware civildefence
| Digital Inclusion Coffee Mornings | article | What real people say about their experience of digital technology | Sat Sep 13 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Gathering opinions on digital technology in society | Tags: public-opinion voxpops help-and-information public-outreach
| Clown Computing | article | The circus of death is approaching. It's pathway is pained in red. Before it the frightened and helpless. Behind it a trail of the dead. | Fri Jul 12 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Absurdity confusion magic technology | Tags: cloud breaches chaos razzle-dazzle showmanship absurd funny failure incompetence
| Chindogu: Every joke has a serious side | article | Chindogu, the Japanese art of the 'useless tool' can tell us a lot about our relation to technology. | Mon Apr 22 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: nil | Tags: design japan psychology
| You can't say that! Until suddenly you can. | article | People are afraid to name evil until others speak up too | Fri Mar 20 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Resistance against "AI" and technofascism is natural, justfied and growing louder | Tags: speech difference censorship norms tall-poppies jante-law percepticide resistance latency memes spiral-of-silence
| At sea with technology | article | As civilian and military tech converge we can't have it both ways with tech and safety. | Thu Apr 16 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: militarisation of civilian tech obviously brings dangers | Tags: strategic-limitation military civic-cybersecurity public-interest
| Calculating a cybersecurity budget | article | Spending and making plans for sustainable computer security is hard. Here's some of the factors to consider. | Mon Feb 05 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: How to budget for cyber security | Tags: ciso infosec money priority change risk-management
| Digital Brutalism | article | A critique of the word 'efficieny' as a political football | Wed Mar 05 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: efficiency is a lie | Tags: "AI" technofascism humanism democracy freedom propaganda
| Freedom from ThE B0llOcKS | article | Can we ever speak clearly about digital technology? | Sun Feb 08 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Challenging lazy and deceptive language around tech | Tags: politics language bollocks clarity bullshit avoidance intellectual-self-defence techn-critique
| Buy Nothing Day | article | Low quality cheap internet-enabled goods impact cybersecurity. Avoid buying them. | Thu Nov 14 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Improve security and protest against rampant consumerism on Black Friday by buying nothing | Tags: hardware cybersecurity crap plastic e-waste excess environment boycott
| Words Betray Us | article | enshitification is a word that hides a simpler truth | Fri Feb 23 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: political language | Tags: language politics deception betrayal
| Art or wank? | article | "AI" is the modern art period for computing. | Sat Mar 21 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: programming progress art technology truth correctness culture software-engineering
| Every time you say "AI" a kitten dies. | article | Changing our vocabulary can change negative perceptions of technology | Fri Apr 24 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Intensity of "AI" hype has reached stupid and destructive proportions | Tags: "AI" terminology hype marketing concepts significance
| What "AI" means (part 2) | article | Seeing through the shell of "AI" marketing speak | Thu Apr 16 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Analysing how people use and misuse the term "AI" | Tags: "AI" terminology hype marketing concepts significance
| Human-AI Hybrid Jobs | article | It's unlikely huans will "work with AI". Automation fundamentally alters labour relations. | Wed Feb 14 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Employment and labour relations under accelerating automation | Tags: work value capital automation machine-learning human-values
| Computers and the older generation | article | ** | Sat Jul 26 2025 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: Age, expertise and computing | Tags: nil
| After Cyberwar | article | nil | Thu Nov 07 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: War, its beginnings, endings and memories | Tags: nil
| A day out with ISSG | article | A trip to the telephone factory with British Computer Society and British Telecom for a cybersecurity conference | Fri Apr 26 2024 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: nil | Tags: ISSG conference cybersecurity
| Acceleration sickness | article | We are outpacing our own capacity. Much too much, much too young. | Tue Feb 24 2026 | nil | nil | Format: blog | Theme: | Tags: nil
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