J Wolfgang Goerlich
@jwgoerlich.bsky.social
I’m the unflinchingly optimistic graybeard, wandering in this cyber dystopia. InfoSec, cybersecurity, futurist, strategist, chaotic good. The views expressed are my own. Sometimes humorously.
The perfect gift for the therapists in your life just hit the book shelves.
This is the book I wrote with @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social, explaining cybersecurity concepts and impacts, directly in the language of clinicians.
Use the code 25SMA4 at routledge.com for 20% off.
This is the book I wrote with @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social, explaining cybersecurity concepts and impacts, directly in the language of clinicians.
Use the code 25SMA4 at routledge.com for 20% off.
December 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The perfect gift for the therapists in your life just hit the book shelves.
This is the book I wrote with @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social, explaining cybersecurity concepts and impacts, directly in the language of clinicians.
Use the code 25SMA4 at routledge.com for 20% off.
This is the book I wrote with @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social, explaining cybersecurity concepts and impacts, directly in the language of clinicians.
Use the code 25SMA4 at routledge.com for 20% off.
Now this, I can get behind.
September 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Now this, I can get behind.
@armorguy.bsky.social the GenX note in your bio reminds me of this gem.
August 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@armorguy.bsky.social the GenX note in your bio reminds me of this gem.
I’m free. I’m finally free. No streets. No limits.
August 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’m free. I’m finally free. No streets. No limits.
As much as I enjoy BH/DC, I hate when I can’t recall someone’s name. I know we were… at a Bsides maybe? and we did… a CTF?
Anyways, you still out in Indiana? How’s what’s-her-name?
Anyways, you still out in Indiana? How’s what’s-her-name?
August 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
As much as I enjoy BH/DC, I hate when I can’t recall someone’s name. I know we were… at a Bsides maybe? and we did… a CTF?
Anyways, you still out in Indiana? How’s what’s-her-name?
Anyways, you still out in Indiana? How’s what’s-her-name?
The strange thing is this happened even though I have location set to off under phone settings.
August 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The strange thing is this happened even though I have location set to off under phone settings.
Opened up Instagram to see a number of friends clustered in Las Vegas.
This is a problem. No, not because Sin City. Because Instagram apparently opted in everyone.
Turn it off under chat.
This is a problem. No, not because Sin City. Because Instagram apparently opted in everyone.
Turn it off under chat.
August 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Opened up Instagram to see a number of friends clustered in Las Vegas.
This is a problem. No, not because Sin City. Because Instagram apparently opted in everyone.
Turn it off under chat.
This is a problem. No, not because Sin City. Because Instagram apparently opted in everyone.
Turn it off under chat.
Bringing some truth in advertising to my flight.
August 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Bringing some truth in advertising to my flight.
Or, you know, hacker summer camp. Same same.
August 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Or, you know, hacker summer camp. Same same.
One week until hacker summer camp. See you there?
July 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
One week until hacker summer camp. See you there?
Securing Sexuality: the book. Tech drives how we meet, date, marry, raise kids. Attacks on it undermines our agency and privacy. This book, written with @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social, helps therapist, coaches, activists think like punk, act like a hacker, and take back control over our private lives.
July 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Securing Sexuality: the book. Tech drives how we meet, date, marry, raise kids. Attacks on it undermines our agency and privacy. This book, written with @stefanigoerlich.bsky.social, helps therapist, coaches, activists think like punk, act like a hacker, and take back control over our private lives.
Really, AI is sycophantic? I hadn’t noticed.
June 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Really, AI is sycophantic? I hadn’t noticed.
Everyone who tries this prompt gets cool cozy desk photos. Picture books and sticky notes and memorabilia related to them. Me? I get an excited Wolf and a confused GPT. Maybe I broke the model.
June 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone who tries this prompt gets cool cozy desk photos. Picture books and sticky notes and memorabilia related to them. Me? I get an excited Wolf and a confused GPT. Maybe I broke the model.
When scams hit your home town so hard, that it makes the news and the road signs.
June 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
When scams hit your home town so hard, that it makes the news and the road signs.
New conspiracy theory just dropped
Look. Aliens definitely did not build the pyramids. But? A time-traveling AI did build our democracy.
Look. Aliens definitely did not build the pyramids. But? A time-traveling AI did build our democracy.
May 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
New conspiracy theory just dropped
Look. Aliens definitely did not build the pyramids. But? A time-traveling AI did build our democracy.
Look. Aliens definitely did not build the pyramids. But? A time-traveling AI did build our democracy.
The original LEGO toy was a wooden duck. Play evolved from wood to plastic, from bespoke to modular. Then after eighty years, LEGO re-released the duck made from their bricks. And if this isn't a metaphor for servers to cloud to containers, I don't know what is.
May 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The original LEGO toy was a wooden duck. Play evolved from wood to plastic, from bespoke to modular. Then after eighty years, LEGO re-released the duck made from their bricks. And if this isn't a metaphor for servers to cloud to containers, I don't know what is.
Stefani Goerlich giving the closing keynote at #BSidesDetroit. “We’re confusing information sharing with intimacy and surveillance with love.”
May 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Stefani Goerlich giving the closing keynote at #BSidesDetroit. “We’re confusing information sharing with intimacy and surveillance with love.”
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. no cheating.
(Forgot why I took this. I’ve no idea why I look so surprised/perplexed. #rsacFace)
(Forgot why I took this. I’ve no idea why I look so surprised/perplexed. #rsacFace)
May 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. no cheating.
(Forgot why I took this. I’ve no idea why I look so surprised/perplexed. #rsacFace)
(Forgot why I took this. I’ve no idea why I look so surprised/perplexed. #rsacFace)