Cybersecurity consultant & researcher exploring transport, infrastructure, & assurance cases. Trans woman writing on power, technology, and society. Blending technical deep dives with lived perspective.
There is a strange role that trans people often get handed whether we asked for it or not. The walking symbol. The living lesson. The person who is apparently always giving feedback, always “making it political”, always “too sensitive” or “too demanding”. The Angry Trans Totem that certain corners of
I’ve published a new article for NCC Group’s Research Blog titled “Legacy Technology in Transport: More Than ‘Old Tech’”. You can read it here: 👉 Legacy Technology in Transport — NCC Group Research Blog
I’ve written a new piece for NCC Group’s Research Blog on how goal-based regulation is changing the way we think about cybersecurity assurance — moving from prescriptive checklists to defensible reasoning about what “secure enough” really means. You can read it here: 👉 Goal-Based Regulation — NCC Group Research Blog
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I heard someone complaining about two-tier policing the other day, as if it is a modern phenomenon. They were frustrated at their belief that “the left get away with things the right do not.” But in my own communities, the opposite frustration is just as common. That made me want
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There are many reasons to fly a flag and many places where flags have been flown throughout history. They have been used as signifiers of armies on battlefields, as indications of allegiance or ownership of towns and cities. They have also been used to trick unwitting mariners into slowing or
When you think of classic hacking imagery—dial tones, terminal prompts, the chirp of modems connecting—there’s a certain retro-tech romance that lingers. But beneath that nostalgia lies deep technical complexity, especially when it comes to the weird and wonderful world of USB. I'm a cybersecurity consultant
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I am a lady of many opinions... To the point where it is a joke among my colleagues and myself that pigs will fly if I don't chime in on a conversation where there is no clear answer. It is important to highlight that I am no contrarian,
Planning TTRPGs Around ASC ∧ ADHD: A Campaign Format I Hope Will Work I love tabletop roleplaying games. I love the creativity, the collaborative storytelling, the improvised weirdness of fantasy characters trying to solve even weirder problems. But I also have a brain that doesn’t always cooperate. I’m autistic—