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Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality

11 September 2026 at 20:37
Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality

I think what really resonates with me this week is being able to completely turn the tables on perceptions around things like AI being the big bad hacking tool the news would have you believe. There's the stat I talk about where it's had literally 0% impact on insurance payouts, the Dutch bloke who's now being tracked down based on his voice and Scott's MAG breach teardown that ultimately pointed to exposed keys rather than anything sophisticated. Then the mention in there about the Aussie headline where ChatGPT has hacked a court system down here when, in fact, a bloke used it to write a scraper he then pointed at the aforementioned website. It seems the truth just doesn't make for good headlines πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality
Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality
Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality
Weekly Update 521: Breach Perception v. Reality

Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition

6 September 2026 at 23:31
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition

I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bit more interesting. And on that note, the imagery it's chosen this week is spot on: that Lockwood ES2100 electric strike looks like the perfect solution for my first fully installed Ubiquiti Access door lock. Having the door position sensor built in really simplifies things, and hopefully Ubiquiti will later add support to their hubs for the latch position and strike lock status. Once I'm back from this next round of travel, I should be able to do a full review of what it's like to actually live with.

Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition
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