Weekly update

Into week 5 of travel now and I'm in Southampton on the south coast of England. The family holidaying is over and it's back to workshops and user groups for the remainder of the trip both here in the UK then back in the Netherlands next week. Despite the schedule, I managed to pump out a quick blog post on what remains one of the most astoundingly insane security / privacy implementation I've seen - Strawberrynet. This has to be seen to be believed and the backstory I talk about in this week's...

Another week abroad, this time in the Netherlands and fortunately a combination of time out with the family and just a single workshop. Still, that workshop raised an interesting question around data retention in backups and how the right to erasure under GDPR will be handled. I discuss that from my tranquil little getaway in Leiden plus ponder what would happen if all my security decisions were one day put on public display. That and more in this week's update, then it's off to London! iTunes...

This has probably been the most relentless week I've had in one place since... I dunno. Forever? It was all in Oslo and all centred around the NDC event but it meant kicking off with a massive 2 day workshop (50 people - a record!), then an OWASP user group (followed by much beer), then workshop Tuesday, family arriving, social NDC event, event kick-off Wednesday, family sightseeing, a Pluralsight recording, shrimp cruise that night, NDC talk on Thursday, a short "how I failed talk" that night f...

It's week 2 of my 6-week European summer tour and I'm in Trondheim Norway which frankly, is a pretty awesome place: > Awesome spot ? pic.twitter.com/wBAYGShQNH [https://t.co/wBAYGShQNH] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 9, 2017 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/873060637735231488] Being busy with workshops and talks means I'm always going somewhere or doing something so time is a bit limited, but I still managed to get out my Security Sense column this week. I also give some updates on some obse...

I'm in Belgium! After 35 hours of travel to Porto in Portugal then 2 days of workshop plus a user group there, I'm now in Leuven which is in the home of epic Belgium beer. I'm now into day 2 of another workshop here after having done a user group on Azure last night so it's turning into a very long week. Not a lot of new stuff to talk about blog wise, but I share what it's like doing these events and some of the things I learn along the way. iTunes podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Hang on - where did my week go?! WannaCry came out of the blue and accosted a big whack of my time starting first thing Saturday. And then, just as it was quietening down, I go and write about not turning off Windows Update and holy shit, did people come out of the woodwork to complain about that! Seriously, just read some of the comments there and the anger directed towards what (in my experience) is usually a pretty seamless process is palpable. More than the objections to updates themselves,...

The big news this week has been dealing with that massive volume of data I loaded into HIBP a week ago. A combination of the mechanics of getting it loaded, the flood of feedback once I did and actually trying to prepare myself for upcoming talks has made it a bit of a crazy week. If I'm honest, I'm feeling a bit run down from it all and need to take it a bit easier before heading away in a couple of weeks' time. Be that as it may, this has been a full-on week and I've captured the highlights be...

Wow, what a day! I got up at about 3:30 this morning and have been going non-stop dealing with the masses of feedback as a result of the billion-and-a-bit breached records I'm presently loading into HIBP. I talk about it in the blog post, but the "small" one of 458 million records is already loaded and as I type this, at about 17:30 Friday, the big one of almost 600M is still a long way off (probably mid-morning for me tomorrow). Anyway, between other commitments and the looong lead-time of uplo...

Home again and blog wise, it was a quiet week. I've been working on some new material you'll see next month as well as preparing for upcoming Europe travels where I've got a heap of events to get to. I've got a new Lenovo to show you in this update plus I do talk quite a bit about that one blog post on building out a Ubiquiti network for my brother and his family which I'm now kinda jealous of! All that and a few other things in the update below, I've got a few extra things in the works for next...

Another beautiful spot today while I'm back in Sydney working on the agenda for NDC here in August [http://ndcsydney.com/]. It's a quick trip albeit one very jammed-packed as we work through over 700 talk submissions and try to distil them down to the best ~135 of the bunch. There's a few weeks of early bird tickets left so if you're down here in Aus (or feel like a holiday), get in and grab them cheap. This week, I'm really excited about this: > This is awesome - for the first time after 5 y...