Richard Ian Porter

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  • Cyber Security is a Team Sport

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    Cyber Security is a team sport. And it doesn’t have to be a dull compliance ridden affair with death by powerpoint, click-through web based training and mindless acceptance of each and every concept by rote. I just absolutely blazed through Cory Doctrow’s Little Brother novel series including the latest (potentially stand-alone more adult- focused) Attack…

  • Vote. Or watch it all Die.

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    This is how Democracies die. Republics too. You need to vote. All of your family, your friends, your neighbors need to vote. We all need to vote for Joe Biden and the Democrats. It’s not perfect. It’s one of our last chances to salvage this without more violence.

  • It continues

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    I’m supposed to say everything is fine. But it’s not. There’s a global pandemic, over 200k Americans have died in an event a majority of developed nations controlled. We head towards an election as a divided nation, a would be autocrat, confirmed kleptocrat remains as president. All indications are he and his party intend to…

  • If you don’t use a password manager, you should quit your tech job…or any job.

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    Just go get a password manager

  • Be Equal

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    I recently completed the Be Equal training as a part of my continuous learning at IBM. Part of it suggested that I record a knowledge-sharing session with my team on what I learned from the training, but I think I’d rather make it fully public, for the sake of broadest transparency. Because I think the…

  • Grow Powerful People

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    I’ve settled on a more concise way to say it. It’s not that the way I had been articulating my mission is wrong. It’s more that it was longer than it needed to be and more of a how than a why. My why is to grow powerful people. My how is by learning and…

  • “For the mountains are calling and [we] must go.”

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    When Covid-19 struck, and after we had our dear baby home and safe from the NICU, my wife and I were very disappointed we couldn’t make our usual July 4th visit to the Boulder Colorado area where I grew up. We love to show our kiddo the fun to be had in the mountains, hiking…

  • To chase the light

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    I’m back at work now. Our family is finding ways to juggle between the responsibilities of earning money and provide childcare and educate and entertain our kiddos. I wont lie and say its picture perfect (but of course I used the perfect pictures as the photos here). Our Disney-plus subscription is getting a real workout.…

  • Black Lives Matter

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    Of course they do. How shocking that it needs to be said, but it does. How shocking that any could construe it as being said in opposition to all lives matter. Of course they do, but All Lives cant matter unless Black Lives Matter. I cant stand that I encounter people who say “well, I…

  • We’re fine. We hope you are too.

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    We are fine. Which is kind of bizarre for everything we’ve recently come through, and the madness our nation is going through now. With the threat to Abby’s and Winter’s lives in the past, and a great deal of fortune, we are healthy and safe. We have been staying at home, keeping 6 feet from…