Writings.
In this section, you can find everything I’ve ever written for somebody else. If you’re looking for my blog, you can find it here.
Note: This section is particularly large, so please bear with whilst I work through it cleaning up the content for the new site.
2026
What's Happening in Rojava? (w/c Feb 2)
2025
Summary (w/c 6 & w/c 13 Jan)
Weekly Summary (w/c 30 Dec)
2024
Weekly Summary (w/c 23 Dec)
Weekly Summary (w/c 16 Dec)
Weekly Summary (w/c 9 Dec)
Weekly Summary (w/c 2 Dec)
Israel–Gaza War: The legal risk of complicity
2022
Of Kurds and Quakers
Review: Angel by Henry Naylor
Embedding standards and pathways across the cyber profession by 2025
Government response to the consultation
Active Cyber Defence
The Fifth Year
Cyber Incident Exercising (CIE)
The MOD’s Accidental Roadmap to Peace
A radical reading of the Integrated Operating Framework
Connections Online 2022
Briefing Note
A New Model Army for a Miserable Century
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
2021
With Neither Utility nor Humanity
An account of repeat institutional failings within St John Ambulance
Chapter member Ben shares his perspective on the benefits of the ISOC Fundamentals training program to his local community
Threat Intelligence Analytical Software
subtext #196
wholly government-approved free-speaking subtext
2020
subtext #195
remain indoors!
Unsafe and counterproductive investigatory practices
with specific reference to St John Ambulance and a suggestion that the issues may be endemic to the wider healthcare & volunteering sectors
subtext #194
voluntary subtext reductions
May 12th Mass Observation Day Diary
subtext #193
stay home and read subtext
subtext #192
strike while the subtext is hot
2019
subtext #191
fresh from the fridge
Rantamaraton JOIN Swap
Read the report of an English volunteer at the Rantamaraton in Finland
subtext #190
get subtext done
BlueKeep
Critical Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerability
Mehmann and Li
Ethical, Legal, Social, and Policy Issues in the Use of Genomic Technology by the U.S. Military
Fatton
The Impotence of Conventional Arms Control: Why Do International Regimes Fail When They Are Most Needed?
Williamson
Hard Law, Soft Law, and Non-Law in Multilateral Arms Control: Some Compliance Hypotheses
Beard
The Shortcomings of Indeterminacy in Arms Control Regimes
Fuhrmann and Lupu
Do Arms Control Treaties Work?: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Krieg and Rickli
Surrogate warfare: the art of war in the 21st century?
Morgan
The State of Deterrence in International Politics Today
Sari
Blurred Lines: Hybrid Threats and the Politics of International Law
Misuse of Multi-Factor Authentication
How to Handle SaaSS
Part 2
The Unified Kill Chain
Part 3
RIP Passwords
Haas and Fisher
The evolution of targeted killing practices: Autonomous weapons, future conflict, and the international order
The Unified Kill Chain
Part 2
How to Handle SaaSS
Part 1
What is an APT?
WordPress 5.1 Vulnerability
The Unified Kill Chain
Part 1
Pessimists Outlive Optimists
6TB Citrix Data Breach
Storage in the Cloud
Part 2
Storage in the Cloud
Part 1
Shaw
Robot Wars: US Empire and Geopolitics in the Robotic Age
Information Classification
The Principle of Least Privilege
Offboarding Employees
New BSIA Guidance Overview
Google Chrome Zero-Day
DNS Hijacking
Threats You Might Not Have Thought Of
Part 2
Threats You Might Not Have Thought Of
Part 1
Should robots be allowed to target people?
Based on combatant status?
Assessing Your Threat Model
SMEs
Easy Pickings and Collateral Damage
What are the Collections Breaches?
Lexcel v6.1 and Cyber Essentials
Authenticate Smarter, Not Harder
Part 4
Authenticate Smarter, Not Harder
Part 3
Authenticate Smarter, Not Harder
Part 2
Authenticate Smarter, Not Harder
Part 1
Leveringhaus
Autonomous weapons mini-series: Distance, weapons technology and humanity in armed conflict
Supply Chain Security
Part 3
Supply Chain Security
Part 2
Supply Chain Security
Part 1
Who Are Magecart?
Emotet and the New Wave of Trojans
Cyber Security Predictions for 2019
Automated Security Tools Are No Substitute for Educated Employees
Privacy By Design is Here to Stay
Lexcel v6.1 and Information Security
TLS 1.3 Vulnerability Discovered
Attacks Targeting Managed Service Providers
SMEs and Cyber Security
A case study
This Too Shall Pass
Windows 7 and software end-of-lifing
Xyone Has a New Site
Authentication as a Life Skill
The Threat of Ransomware
Whether In-sourcing or Out-sourcing Your Security, Xyone Has You Covered
The Psychology of Security
2018 in Breaches
Mobile Malware
Breaches and Butterfly Wings
How data loss fuels further phishing
What is Gen V Cyber Security
?
Cyber Security for Wealth Managers
Part 2
Cyber Security for Wealth Managers
Xyone Becomes CREST Member
Xyone Listed on UK Cyberslide
2018
Internet Explorer Zero-Day
The Age of Techno-Omniscience
Introducing Mitigate
PHP Versions About to Lose Support
The future of Xyone Cyber Essentials certification
Mobile-based auditing of the DẼMOS 2 e-voting system
Xyone Cyber Security New Growth Investment
Iscar Tools Ltd achieve 100% Mitigate Trusted Status
The (Often Unwitting) Enemy Within
e-Estonia
Experiencing the most advanced digital society in the world
Between the Razors’ Edge
When might state security practices become counterproductive?
Strange Jurisdictions
The development of control systems outside of meatspace
An analysis of anti-forensic techniques, with a consideration of the future of digital forensics
A Secure Messaging Protocol Proposal
Prosopagnosia
An analysis of the HRO approach to risk management from an information security perspective
Spectre & Meltdown
An Analysis of the OWASP Top Ten 2013
A review of Milaj (2015) and Rachovitsa (2016)
A case review of R (Catt) v Association of Chief Police Officers
2017
Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2
Individual Report
GDPR: What will it mean for you?
(as presented to the University of Lancaster)
Can privacy be protected on social networks?
Critical Infrastructure Protection
The responsibility of Government or of companies?
Attack Assessment Report
Internet Applications Engineering
Consolidated Report
2016
Thanks, ants. Thants.
Applying genetic algorithms to simulated ants to produce higher-fitness generations
Up the Backend
To bloom side by side
The red and the white poppy
How to make your LUSU society page the envy of your friends
The Witch, Big Bad Freshers’ 2016 Issue
We asked people at Moondance Festival how far they would go to save Fabric
Meet Harvey Falshaw
The Fresher who tore up the stage
at Latitude
Overheard at Latitude
What it’s like to live with your ex-girlfriend
I partied at an Icelandic festival in 96 hours of continuous sunlight
I’m spoiling my ballot and you should too
The Sugarhouse accepts highly-coveted Tab award as one of the worst clubs
The Sugarhouse voted in the top 20 worst clubs in the UK
The Life of a Campus Cop in Lancaster
Exclusive: An interview with the campus ducks
Lancaster is the eighth best university in the UK
The NUS is a joke
Let’s leave it for our own sake
Spare a thought for the poor people still using BlackBerries
LUSU want you to vote on massive changes this Thursday
Your uni experience is nothing without a bin party
We spoke to the junior doctors striking outside Lancaster Infirmary
LUSU are campaigning against a student block next to Sugarhouse
The Witch, Summer 2016 Issue
Everything you learn studying Computer Science
Reincarnation is real. What was your past life?
Lancaster student who joined ISIS reportedly killed in Syria
Working a bunch of part-time jobs is better than a full-time job could ever be
Cumbria to compete in Roses 2016 after York pulls out
Everything you learn living with French flatmates
The Green Ayre won’t be reopening any time soon
Girls in gender-neutral clothes are fit
An ode to the Casio F-91W, the only watch you’ll ever need
These are Lancaster University’s goofiest modules
Grammar schools were the best thing about our education system
If your club doesn’t have a photobooth, what’s even the point?
Exams are meaningless, so why are we still doing them?
Which college has the most international students?
Is this presidential candidate taking the piss?
There will be no more A Wing raves in HM Prison Lancaster
Forget gay marriage, where’s my straight civil partnership?
Odds on you reading this article
Bourne is the real jewel of the Midlands
The helicopter on campus landed due to a crash on the A6
Why Gin is the drink of kings, queens and in-betweens
Missing Lancaster student has been found
I taught sex ed to a bunch of sixth formers
I mean it when I say it
CU are the nicest people on campus
All the things you hear when you are the messiest housemate
Carnage returns to Lancaster and we’re giving away FREE SHIRTS
Letter published in Free speech: we can recognise the wrongs of the past without using bans
Lancaster can’t decide if it’s going to get flooded or not
LUSU rebrand Cowboy & Indian themed night at Lonsdale
Lancaster is one of the worst unis for free speech – and it’s embarrassing
Lonsdale gets almost 10 times as many disciplinaries as everyone else
Second year house on Green Street was robbed over the weekend
2015
An update on life in Lancaster following the floods
Life in the eye of Storm Desmond
In defence of legal highs
Weirdest Tinder bios in Lancaster
Clubbers of the week
Harry Potter edition
Meet the Instafamous Law third year who’s a fitness sensation
Everyone sucks but us
Why Pendle own this joint
Pendle window is hanging on for dear life
Clubbers of the week
Halloween edition
Mr Gatward talks
Fresher explains his heinous crimes
Deputy Dean accidentally CC’s in entire undergrad cohort in private correspondence
Clubbers of the week
How to pull off being a terrible frep, by a frep
Freshers 2015
An A–Z of Drinking Games
Here’s every Freshers 2015 event by college
I played a drinking game in my exam and it was a terrible idea
A new alternative club night is coming to Yorkshire House
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REVEALED: This year’s Extrav Week themes are weirder and better than ever
The essential guide to shagging in the library
Clubbers of the week
Extreme exam drought edition
Introduction to Image, Video and Speech Processing
What is the future of journalism?
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
External Placement
2014
On BAE Systems
Big bad BAE?
Why Did the German Revolution of 1918–19 Fail in Its Goals?
Contribution to Learning to Drive in a Classic
From Womb to Doom Film Script
(unfinished)
Fringe Benefits
Short Film Script
Black & Wellies
S01E01 (Pilot)
