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Rik Ferguson

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Immigrant. VP Security Intelligence @Forescout, Co-founder @RespectInSec. Board @vaultree, Cybersecurity Futurist, Researcher, Award-winning writer/producer. He/Him. Pussy in bio. Substack - Ferguson.ink Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · Nov 8

Reposting this tweet from Oct 2017, so I can pin it here too.

Public note: If you ask me to sit on any public panel I will decline if there are no women on the panel. I can’t do much but I can do this.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 5h

Bloody lovely. And what a great read too.

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 1d

I reassert my claim from 2022; “The greatest challenge facing humanity over the next decade is to tell fact from fiction, reality from fantasy, and truth from lies”. It feeds into absolutely everything else.

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 1d

I almost sliced off the tip of my finger with a breadknife the other day.

It’s given me a great idea for Hallowe’en canapés though.
#finger_food

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 1d

Of course! One condition you send Matilda a mini Rumi outfit, she is about to be 7, and only just got her hair back after 2 years. But she’s *desperate* for the Rumi do!

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 1d

Are you ready for the takedown, of course!

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 3d

Thank you Mary, this was the whole team at our fantastic Vedere Labs!

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 6d

1981, the year of antmusic, is now as far behind us at 1937 was in 1981… Damn.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 7d

Yeah, I see “Post blocked” too and nothing there to tap on.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 8d

PromptLock. Was. An. Academic. PoC. Not. An. AI. Revolution. In. Cybercrime.

Stop putting it in your blogs and presentations.

Thank you for your attention to this matter ;)

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 8d

That hand though…

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 8d

But, will the Conservatives give everyone (except “illegals” fkors) a free puppy “if they win the next election?

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 10d

If you edit for a security title and you follow me, I’ve a new column looking for a home: Operational Truth. Accuracy is a security property. It’s practical: exposure SLOs, drift measurement and enforced controls. and it has a funky Stranger Things tie-in. Want it as a contributed piece? DM me.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11d

Ok. Alert over, but departures is now a mass/mess of people. Expect delays.

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11d

“For safety reasons we cannot let you know why”
“There is no official information yet”

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11d

Terminal 2 at Prague airport is currently evacuated