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.
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
code
I lost the remote for my Yamaha RX-V385 receiver. Not temporarily misplaced it, not left it between couch cushions. Gone. Vanished into whatever dimension claims TV remotes, single socks, and 10mm...
Matthew Gamble
code
Wtih today being a holiday (Good Friday) and a chance to finally start to tackle my "todo" list around the house I installed a new smart light in my office, an Artika Skyshade I picked up from Costco...
Matthew Gamble
Security
I've watched many teams score vendors on raw CVE counts. Not on response times, not on disclosure transparency, not on architectural controls. On the number of CVEs. I've seen it first-hand, in the...
Matthew Gamble
Reflections
Fiction has a funny way of becoming government policy. Recently I've been rewatching Person of Interest, the CBS drama that ran from 2011 to 2016. If you haven't seen it, the premise is this: a...
Matthew Gamble
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