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Cybersecurity, assurance, technology, identity, and life.

“I dare do all that may become a woman. Who dares do more is none.”

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  • CyberSea 2026: Cybersecurity, Community and the Black Sea

    Sophie loitering casually by some CyberSea Festival branding in the roasting sunshine. Soare, Mare, Securitate Cibernetică: Sun, Sea, Cybersecurity Reflections from the first two days in Constanța Cybersecurity conferences are often held in anonymous hotel function rooms, apparently designed to ensure that nothing distracts delegates from the PowerPoint slides or the coffee of uncertain legal…

  • Reacting to a pandemic

    More reports from the UK Government Covid-19 Inquiry today, and lamentable reading too, if you can make it through all 800 pages across two reports released today 2025-11-20. You can find all the reports here. My Own Timeline My elderly parents had already gone into isolation in February. Having lived through the 1957-8 H2N2 Influenza…

  • The only thing we have to fear is…fear itself⁽¹⁾

    Sometimes the only way to deal with a particular fear is to face it, head on[2]. Flying in girl-mode Without being reckless, Sophie can be herself in most European countries (EU/EEA/CH), at least in the Capitals & big cities. She has toured the Vatican (which is full of men in dresses anyway who work there),…