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Cyber is effective. Explosions are effective-er.

The publication of documents that allegedly describe the work of a Russian IT company on behalf of Russian intelligence services caused quite a stir in various journalistic publications at the end of March this year.
Jun 28, 2023 15 min read

All metal, no manpower

It occurred to me that there are uncomfortable similarities between some major issues the armed forces of the Russian Federation suffer from and the issues a lot of Blue Teams have to deal with. This is an attempt to come up with a comparison that doesn’t sound entirely insane.
Feb 21, 2023 8 min read

On the perceived foolishness of self-hosting e-mail

There has been some activity within the Fediverse about how running your own mailserver is or isn’t foolish, and how “we” lost the fight against big corporate. This is my take on it.
Oct 9, 2022 7 min read

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