Independent Insight on Canadian Tech and Infrastructure
Independent analysis of Canadian telecom, IT, and AI. Exploring infrastructure, policy, regulation, and the technologies shaping Canada’s digital future.
rant
Recently, I found myself sitting across from a 20-piece McNugget box, three dipping sauces, and a rising sense of injustice. Three sauces. For twenty nuggets. I'm a network engineer by trade, and even...
Matthew Gamble
Reflections
I double booked myself again. A work meeting landed on top of a personal commitment because I forgot to cross-reference my Google Calendar before accepting the invite in Outlook. It's embarrassing...
Matthew Gamble
Reflections
Over the weekend, something happened that most enterprise architects and business leaders probably never seriously modelled: drone strikes took out Amazon Web Services data centres in the Middle...
Matthew Gamble
policy direction
Earlier this month, "PC Gamer reported" (https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-a...
Matthew Gamble
Alignment
There's a special kind of technical debt that doesn't show up in Jira. It doesn't sit in a backlog. It doesn't have a product owner. It doesn't even admit it exists. It lives in PowerPoint. I call it...
Matthew Gamble
Hard Conversations
For the past decade, I've watched enterprise security teams deploy TLS inspection appliances with the best of intentions. The pitch is always the same: we need visibility into encrypted traffic to...
Matthew Gamble
amazon
I was watching the American feed of the Super Bowl last night when Ring's latest ad came on. A family loses their dog. They upload a photo. Ring's network of neighbourhood cameras springs into action,...
Matthew Gamble
Security
Security requires a particular mindset. Security professionals (at least the good ones) see the world differently. They can't walk into a store without noticing how they might shoplift. They can't use...
Matthew Gamble
innovation
New York is considering a budget bill (S.9005/A.10005) that would require all 3D printers sold in the state to include "blocking technology" that scans every print file through a "firearms blueprint...
Matthew Gamble
code
If you're reading this, you're looking at a completely rebuilt blog. Not a theme change. Not a migration. A from-scratch rebuild of everything – the content system, the search, the social layer, and...
Matthew Gamble
code
Last week I was reviewing a vulnerability scan report for a client when something caught my eye. Buried in a list of "critical" findings was a Log4j vulnerability - you know, the one that broke the...
Matthew Gamble
ai
When organizations talk about managing AI risk, the response often starts with prohibition. Access to public AI tools is blocked at the firewall. Policies are updated to make expectations clear....
Matthew Gamble