Projects I've got going: - POC Leveraging zkVM; your phone as an NFC reader, camera and its Lockbox; a small facial embedding model; to produce a proof that you are >18, you match the photo in the passport, and the data was signed by a trusted authority (government) - to a 3rd party no photo shared

Newspaper delivery Lab Assistant/Intern Lecturer/Course Content maker Research Engineer (EngD) Security Consultant (Hacker, Security Engineering, Training, Sales, .......)

Amazing how quickly my cognitive load jumps when I'm in a place with lots of people, accents, conversations... Get to the airport with the recommended amount of time, drop off your bag, speed through security, and get into the lounge... Now the stress headache begins...

ljames.dev/building-opp... Wrote another thing.

Ah yes, go ahead and consider blanket bans of trans women from women's sports... Please IOC, show me how that is proportionate. They'll do what they like ofc especially with the leadership and US political situation (around LA28).

Oh fuck all the way off with this... EHRC guidance will help businesses comply with the law on sex and gender | Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) | The Guardian share.google/cFPPHZnWhxvR...

“In all the five policy areas, the ECHR places significant constraints," Lord Wolfson found. Yes... that's kind of the point? Genuinely distressed that we've ended up at the point where Human Rights protections up for wholesale removal because our leaders want an easier answer to their challenges.

Did some writing recently... Some thoughts on flags: ljames.dev/whose-ground... Some thoughts on two-tier policing: ljames.dev/from-social-... I'm not a leader in this space, but I wanted to put my thoughts down somewhere.

> Digital ID to make illegal employment practices extra illegal. Just like banning car-theft gadgets when car-theft is already illegal. Politicians: Congrats everyone — we’ve solved crime.

@mega.rammy.moe nerd ❤️

Well I'm beginning to see some strong correlation between my burn out and my getting sick. Even if this was food poisoning it feels pretty damn convenient to knock me off my feet for several days after I reached the conclusion I needed a break.

So I have another variant of the USB rotation problem. I can never open a fresh packet of medication the right way around. Always ends up with the documentation first (which invariably nerd snipes me for a few minutes) before I can get at the meds.

While I can look at the NHS Fife lawsuit situation as what it is, a media circus by the same old organisations and people looking to maximise harm. It is causing a substantially larger drag on my media tolerance. It also feels like the regular queer voices I turn to are relatively quiet.

I've not posted on here recently, feels like I've been a busy 🐝 and had very little additional headspace recently. No progress on: - learning driving theory - finding a driving instructor - baudpunk - Chartership applications (CEng, CIISec)

Just caught myself modelling society as a stuck optimisation problem. The political–societal–business social contract feels trapped in a local minima—not good, but stable. Getting out would mean big, disruptive changes…

I had some half baked/long shower/bath thoughts? Feel free to skip if you don't want to read rambling 😁 ljames.dev/why-cyber-ph...

Wrote a thing: ljames.dev/planning-ttr...

Can tell I'm in a weird headspace rn. Could mow the lawn but have a shower? No...

So begins my 2 weeks of 'not regular work'. Week 1 - CyberUK2025, giving a technical masterclass on Supply Chains and a bit of Cybersecurity. Lots of networking, brand building, & a bit of minor activism by showing up & being visible @ women's events, and bathrooms (depending on my anxiety level)

So I'm acutely aware that I'm a manifestation of the trans boogie-woman that the GCs and TERFs use in their rhetoric. I am not a lawyer, nor a gender theorist yet I'm fortunate enough to several - many of whom are trans, NB or GNC.

It's always interesting to see transphobes play at victimhood while bringing the full force of the political and media class crashing down on some blameless young trans woman. Red Sullivan has more dignity and courage in her little finger than these disgusting bigots have between them.

Feeling pretty good this morning. Nothing like a brisk walk along the river and a glorious sunny morning to wake you up

So I'm giving a technical masterclass on Supply Chain Cybersecurity. www.cyberuk.uk We are gonna be sharing some initial survey results from a survey we commissioned (with the full report available at our booth).

With all the chaos from tariffs, can't help but feel like we ought to be looking everywhere else for more shenanigans

Today is Trans Day of Visibility (TDoV). In recent months, I’ve realised I want my career to grow upward—not just for my own development, but to help others find space and success in Security Engineering, as I have done.

Work Liz wrote a thing www.nccgroup.com/us/research-...

I'm now instinctively reacting whenever anyone talks about "waste" in a system with cynicism. Consistently hearing about waste in the NHS or in the Federal Government but rarely any reflection on 'why' things are the way they are.

Get to go back to undergraduate statistics today to ensure a quality Cyber Security report... Expected Value/Number of random guesses of a bruteforce-able Challenge-Response algorithm. First being nice with the search space, then iteratively adding in the vulnerabilities.

Joke's on you, big windy storm! I still hadn't fixed our garden fence from the last one.

I adopted a dog from Iceland and everyone thinks he’s vicious, but his Bjork is way worse than his bite

Great.

Kinda distressing how people have responded to the 'Ivermectin cures cancer' situ with some form of "survival of the fittest", "Darwinism", "lol they so stupid". Misinformation at this scale impacts society when it seeps into the zeitgeist and influences things irrespective of if you believe it.

I don't do personal New Years Resolutions, but this year I am going to talk about some objectives I have professionally. Why profession things? Because as unpopular of an opinion as is it is, I genuinely get a sense of personal fulfillment and satisfaction from it.

I think I'm beginning to sound like a broken record to some of the Automotive and HGV T1s and OEMs that I work with. An item definition should contain: - a High Level Description of the functionality of a component, system, product - a Boundary diagram describing the interfaces