A Bloke in a Pub

Tag: Theatre

  • Lucky Socks

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    Peter Fagan
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    Superstitious Learning We all have a pair of lucky socks. Or something similar. The new socks that we wore when that interview went absolutely perfectly. On occasion, they may have let you down, but they’re still your lucky socks. What’s happened here is that on one occasion, an isolated event (choosing to wear a new…

  • Mind the Gap

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    Peter Fagan
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    Every industry has to do a bit of selling – to spin the product in an appealing way. But advertising is almost always subject to an enforceable code of practice, setting out how much creativity is too much. I wonder if there ought to be something similar applied to cyber, to close the gap between…

  • Security Theatre

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    Peter Fagan
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    Phase One It was Bruce Schneier (I think) who coined the phrase “security theatre”, to cover instances when people go through a meaningless routine to convince you there’s some security going on here, when in fact there isn’t. It’s a popular theme, and it’s grown into a concept that’s widely referred to as a bad…