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We Did This To Ourselves
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A decade of Dutch digital sovereignty surrendered through procurement. From the failed Rijkscloud to the CLOUD Act, and now a state secretary who confirms it in writing and presses on anyway.
The Illusion of Control: Your Laptop Choice Isn't the Security Risk
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Mobile authenticator vulnerabilities expose a fundamental truth. Securing the endpoint OS while leaving the phone untouched is security theater. Here is what actually works.
The Senior Specialist's Tax: Hands-on or Handcuffed?
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Exploring the hidden workload, compliance mirages and burnout risks faced by senior specialists in enterprise IT environments.
Fortinet’s Quiet War on Linux Workstations
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How Fortinet’s licensing changes force Linux engineers into costly VPN workarounds, creating operational risk.
If You Can Read It in OWA, You Can Archive It: A Playwright Approach
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The ISO 27001 Hallucination: Documenting Your Way to Disaster
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ISO 27001 documentation can give a false sense of security, leading to compliance illusions and enterprise risk.
The Death of the Architect: How AI Hijacks the Technical Soul
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Efficiency is not a Flex: Beyond the 'I Use Arch, BTW' Meme
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Using Arch Linux isn’t inherently more efficient — here’s why tech efficiency is about practices, not distro choice.
The Apeldoorn Illusion: A Post-Mortem of Dutch Digital Sovereignty
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A post-mortem of Dutch digital sovereignty failures, exploring enterprise and systemic IT accountability.
The DJI and AP Collapse: A Masterclass in Institutional Hypocrisy
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A case study of institutional failures in cybersecurity and governance, highlighting systemic risks in enterprise IT.
The Badge, The Burnout, and the Backdoor: Why Scammers Love Your CISO
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How burnout and gamification create easy targets for social engineering attacks on enterprise admins.
The Digital Trump Moment: The Bill for Our Collective Negligence Is Due
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How collective IT negligence and geopolitical decisions expose systemic risks in digital sovereignty.
The State of SSH: Neglect Disguised as Stability
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SSH infrastructure is often treated as stable, but neglect can create hidden vulnerabilities in enterprise environments.
Digital Vassals: Why the EU’s Big Mouth Is a Suicide Note
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How EU policies, digital sovereignty, and cloud dependencies put member states at systemic risk.
The Death of the 'Windows Default' and the Rise of Technical Sanity
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The Dutch Government's New Vision on Digital Autonomy: Promises, Contradictions, and the Same Old Dependencies
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The Dutch government’s digital autonomy strategy promises independence but risks reinforcing old dependencies.
The Panopticon Economy: How the EU is Building China-Lite
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Cloudflare Fell Over And Everyone Built on Top of It Too
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Cloudflare, AWS, and Azure outages show that centralized dependency risks affect modern infrastructure.
Content Theft on LinkedIn: A Professional Problem Worth Addressing
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Hands-On AI Prompt Engineering for Sysadmins
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Practical AI prompt frameworks and examples for sysadmins and tech professionals to generate actionable repeatable results.
Target Acquired: When WSUS Becomes the Weapon (CVE-2025-59287)
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Inception-Level Evasion: When Your EDR Can’t See the Linux VM Hiding in Windows
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Pro-Russian hackers exploit Linux VMs inside Windows to bypass EDR, creating a critical security blind spot.
Hands-On or Handcuffed: An Engineer's Choice
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A reflection on engineering integrity versus corporate bureaucracy and the commitment to remain hands-on.
The EU's Digital Overreach: CBDC & Chat Control - Convenience for Whom?
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The EU’s digital initiatives like CBDC and Chat Control raise questions about privacy, control, and IT workload.