My 1K post ...

So, I have reached my 1K post on LinkedIn. It's just a marking page, and you find some new things about infinity and Python in Post 1,001 [here] and on Alexander Cazes in Post 1,002 [here].

LinkedIn is certainly not the easiest place to keep a blog, but it a useful place to jot down ideas, and see if anyone is interested in them. I've been writing articles for many years, but the early ones tended to use my own Web site of the posts. Here is one from 2001 (Yuk!):

I posted my first article LinkedIn article on 19 October 2014 (1,007 days ago), and, I calculate that I've averaged one a day, which isn't too bad for throughput. My top article is this one, and the one which, possibly, had the most impact, and which I hope has helped to focus PhD students on their work, is this one [here]:

The kindness of the comments shows that social media can stimulate ideas and discussion. If you're interested my first ever post was on 10 October 2015 and only gained 215 clicks [here]:

But my second one, showed the potential of using LinkedIn as a great way to communicate technical knowledge [here] (2.36K clicks):

Signing from the heart

Looking back we've been pretty consistent with the things which make us "sign from the heart" ... our love of cryptography, love of coding, of computer security, of our great students, of our great spin-outs, of our great collaborations, of great SMEs we have worked with, and in telling a few stories along the way.

For the bumps along the way, the EU exit still makes me feel sad for our next generation, and the opportunities they will miss, and I hope we can all do something to overcome these difficulties.

Unfortunately, LinkedIn doesn't make it easy to manage articles, so, if you're interested, here's a selection of the articles from the past ... and just a sample of the ones that gained over 1K clicks.

The scoops

So there's been some scoops along the way, and often it is a bit of a race to get articles ready with enough technical knowlege to contribute something, when a major security incident occurs. For this, forget Wannacry, there was nothing like Heartbleed, and which was a bug which exposed a large part of the Internet. From inside knowledge we showed that there was quite a bit of insider deadlining of shares before the release of the Heartbleed bug [here]:

And on the Sony Hack we showed the true scope of the hack ... which was over 25 million files [here]:

The scary future

Along the way we told a few stories of the impact of technology [here]:

and outlining the risks of this Cyber Age [here]:

and on the mysteries of the history of Bitcoin [here]:

and when your TV spied on you [here]:

and, of course, Wannacry [here]:

Articulating crypto

One of our great technical passion is cryptography, and we have aimed to articlate some of the risks around it [here]:

and with quantum computing [here]:

and has a bit of fun along the way [here]:

and in cracking crypto [here]:

and with a few magic tricks [here]:

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and we loved telling stories about some great tech methods [here]:

Contentions issues

But as academics, we haven't shied away from contentious issues in cryptography [here]:

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