When the Bank Goes Quiet, the Scammers Get Loud
DNB customers could not log in to their bank this Monday morning. The scam messages that follow an outage like this are the bigger risk, so here are a few plain …
Signals
Field notes, investigations, and glitch-style reflections from the FTRCRP collective.
Når banken blir stille, blir svindlerne høylytte
DNB-kunder fikk ikke logget inn i banken mandag morgen. Svindelmeldingene som følger etter et slikt avbrudd er den største risikoen, så her er noen enkle regler …
A Bruise Is Not a Proof
Nicholas Carr ends Superbloom with Samuel Johnson kicking a rock to refute Berkeley. A good book, and an analogy that does not go deep enough, because pain is a …
The Price Is Not Set Here
A Friday night fuel-duty debate on NRK, and a diesel price that is not set in Norway. On a superpower gone off the rails, and the seat a small country has …
The Right Not to Know
Some of us carry the week's news so the people we love do not have to: a DeepMind researcher's wish for her family, one October week of Starlink and Ukraine, …
The Door Nobody Checks
I tried to warn a company that its website was sending phishing. The only address it publishes cannot receive mail, and nobody inside would ever know.
Dormant Code: the blindness of a passing test
Logic bombs, trigger-based evasion, and what a green test never tells you.
What do you do when BankID is down?
Norway's national login infrastructure went down at 03:38 on Monday 24 August and stayed degraded for three days, the second denial-of-service attack on the …
The truth problem
We have a truth problem, and accepting it has been a collective act rather than one country's doing. Disclosure gets waved on the UAP question while the Epstein …
Double Whammy with a Pinch of Catastrophe
Iran contests the Strait of Hormuz while the Houthis squeeze Bab el-Mandeb — two chokepoints, both ends of the Arabian Peninsula, at the same time. Six …
Smoke and mirrors: the disclosure hype is conveniently timed
Disclosure Day in theaters, Sleeping Dog on the podcast circuit, eight explosive videos in Washington... the attention machinery is at full throttle in a June …
Extend the thinking, do not substitute it
Three pillars for using AI honestly in study and security work, and what a hardened lab actually taught me.
The Verse He Chose
King Charles III invoked Joel 3:10, the mobilisation verse, in his joint address to Congress on April 28. The verse he chose, not the verse he didn’t, is …
The Admin Prompt
Microsoft blocked a registry hack that unlocks native NVMe on Windows 11. Every tech outlet responded the same way: download an unsigned binary from GitHub and …
The Silent Siege
Telia Norge was compromised for 18 months. 500,000 customers exposed. The breach reveals what happens when we treat connectivity as a consumer product instead …
Academic Grind, Technical Wins, and a System on the Fringes
Python progress, CCNA grinding, encrypted backup wins, and reflections on infrastructure fragility and surveillance overreach.
Under The Radar
Notes from Simen Bakke’s lecture at Noroff on how China uses civilian hackers and IT companies for cyber operations.
The Testing Grounds
Signals dispatch examining AI escalation, credential leaks, and the ethical testing grounds shaping the next era.
Cloud Week
Management notes on decentralised resilience, hybrid security workflows, and rebuilding digital hygiene from the ground up.