Fact 1 of Cyber Security Club: Users are the weakest security link. Fact 2 of Cyber Security Club: Users are always the weakest security link. Fact 3 of Cyber Security Club: Who the frell needs users anyway? (Feel free to enlarge the above and use it as a poster for your office. You know you want to.) As CyberSec professionals (or even those in training), we know tips and tricks to keep our digital identities clean and reasonably secure. We know the importance of good password practices (passphrases are very good, randomised character strings of 8 characters or more is the least you can do), of clearing caches and cookies (if you have to accept cookies in the first place), and not clicking on anything that screams in loud, epileptic-fit-inducing, flashing colours “click me”. These things are the least of our knowledge, to the point that we forget, that somehow, they are not common knowledge. 20+ years of the internet being common, and people still think that 50 toolbar...
Why Bastard Academic, you ask? You put the word Gentleman before both terms: the Gentleman Academic and the Gentleman Bastard (at least according to Scott Lynch). The intention here will be to collect some of my Cyber Security blogs for CoderSource.io, as well as supplementary information and resources on and around the field. I will also throw in the odd instructional post on things I'm learning or working on, as well as the occasional political theorising/ranting and philosophical musing.