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May 21

The nail in the coffin for VPNs

I think about enterprise IT architecture and the VPNs within them a lot — probably far too much. VPN ecosystems cost a bunch of money, take significant operational effort to run, often lead to a terrible IT user experience, and are a breeding ground for vulnerabilities. …

Cybersecurity

10 min read

The nail in the coffin for VPNs
The nail in the coffin for VPNs
Cybersecurity

10 min read


Oct 9, 2021

An idea to make the UK the safest place to live and work online

In late 2020 I wrote that we should make URLs less important. The thinking was essentially two fold: Use technology to solve cybersecurity problems, don’t expect or make the general user do a bunch of stuff such as install a password manager (because they can’t/won’t) If you want to protect…

Cybersecurity

10 min read

An idea to make the UK the safest place to live and work online
An idea to make the UK the safest place to live and work online
Cybersecurity

10 min read


Aug 8, 2021

How to keep your smartphone safe from spying

This post discusses four personas, the technical threats to them and their information via their smartphone, and some theory on how to defend against an increasingly capable and focused threat actors. If you find yourself matching one of these personas, following the recommendations below may serve you well if you…

Smartphones

16 min read

How to keep your smartphone safe from spying
How to keep your smartphone safe from spying
Smartphones

16 min read


Mar 9, 2021

Could a tertiary name service save your uptime?

A few months ago I told someone in the UK Government that a tertiary nameservice could solve a handful of problems — including the ones they were handling in relation to “how many domains? why? WHO? asset discovery!” A Tertiary DNS Server is a second secondary server. That is, a…

DNS

5 min read

Could a tertiary name service save your uptime?
Could a tertiary name service save your uptime?
DNS

5 min read


Nov 11, 2020

A little bit more about URLs

A deeper dive into some aspects of my other post about making URLs less important. This isn’t quite a ‘Part 2’, but more of an expansion of some technological nuances that exist today when it comes to individual services and mechanisms to deal with domains and URLs. This posts extracts…

Cybersecurity

7 min read

A little bit more about URLs
A little bit more about URLs
Cybersecurity

7 min read


Nov 11, 2020

We should make URLs less important

URLs are bad for humans… so we should be tackling as many root issues as we can to help them, instead of suggesting technical solutions. Troy Hunt posted recently about humans being bad at URLs, which came about as a result of a bit of tooing and froing on twitter. …

Cybersecurity

11 min read

Cybersecurity

11 min read


Apr 19, 2020

The future of UK government technology interoperability

This is the second post of a two-part musing by yours truly. The first post discusses how UK government technology interoperability is far from easy — some background, problem statement and caveats. This second post discusses what the future could look like. It is certainly not exhaustive. The technology is sort of already out there You can absolutely…

G Suite

9 min read

The future of UK government technology interoperability
The future of UK government technology interoperability
G Suite

9 min read


Apr 19, 2020

UK government technology interoperability is far from easy

April 2020 in the United Kingdom is a strange time: a global pandemic where beyond the public health crisis and national security issues we see a mass movement away from offices and an over 95% reduction in public transport utilisation. Working from home, inaccessible ‘high side’ systems (surprise surprise, terminals…

G Suite

7 min read

UK government technology interoperability is far from easy
UK government technology interoperability is far from easy
G Suite

7 min read


Apr 17, 2020

You probably don’t need to use a VPN

We currently live in an exceptional time: a global pandemic where beyond the public health crisis and national security issues we see a mass movement to working from home. Various technological challenges are born from seismic changes to worker patterns/behaviours: geographical diversity is definitely one of them. This post is…

VPN

6 min read

You probably don’t need to use a VPN
You probably don’t need to use a VPN
VPN

6 min read


Aug 26, 2019

The what and why of my wallet

I haven’t posted (on Medium) for a little while but I was encouraged to write a post about how I handle my personal finances as someone who runs their own business and spends a bit of time researching such things. This is sort of like when I wrote ‘being safe…

Investing

9 min read

The what and why of my wallet
The what and why of my wallet
Investing

9 min read

Joel Samuel

Joel Samuel

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The thin blue line between technology and everything else. joelgsamuel.com

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