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Ciaran Martin

@ciaranm.bsky.social

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“Cyber Security Ace” - Daily Star In reality: * Prof at Blavatnik School, Uni of Oxford * 1st head, UK National Cyber Security Centre * ex-Treasury, constitution & security official * adviser to cyber security companies * APT Name: Warlike Manatee

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 12h

Who’d have thunk that DOGE wouldn’t save any money?

(From the Wall Street Journal)

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Timothy King @tk1ng.bsky.social · 14h

Cory Doctorow has a word for that kind of 'do less and get less' approach to AI adoption: futurism.com/future-socie...

If it ends up getting fumbled, it'll be myopic money grabs that do it, not the tech itself.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

futurism.com

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Patrick C Miller @patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 14h

LockBit, Qilin, and DragonForce Join Forces to Dominate the Ransomware Ecosystem thehackernews.com/2025/10/lock...

LockBit, Qilin, and DragonForce Join Forces to Dominate the Ransomware Ecosystem

DragonForce, LockBit, and Qilin form a powerful ransomware alliance as LockBit 5.0 emerges.

thehackernews.com

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah had to buy my own tayto cheese onion at an m7 service station

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15h

Look closely…

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 15h

The best speaker’s fee

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 16h

And booze

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 16h

Wonderful to take my “thugs and thieves in cyberspace” talk on the road to lovely Kilkenny for Cyber Ireland’s annual conference, a great organisation headed by the redoubtable @brianhonan.bsky.social

Also good to receive my usual speaker’s fee in Ireland

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British synagogue in which two Jews were killed.

This is the immediate reply.

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Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 2d

Professor Ciaran Martin is quoted in The New York Times discussing what recent cyberattacks reveal about the weaknesses in the UK’s cybersecurity. 👇
https://ow.ly/nSCY50X7EoN

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 3d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Huge congratulations Suzanne

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

The greater good

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

The swan is the hero of the final scene

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

The swan was the hero at the end

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Suzanne Raine @suzanneraine.bsky.social · 4d

This was a truly extraordinary day. I am so grateful to all the fellows of @selwyn1882.bsky.social for electing me and to Bishop Sarah for conducting the installation. We all offer her our warmest congratulations on her appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury.

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 6d

Congratulations to Dame Sarah Mullally on becoming the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury.

Dame Sarah was in Cambridge to install the new Master of Selwyn College @@selwyn1882.bsky.social, Suzanne Raine @suzanneraine.bsky.social, yesterday evening.

📸 Nigel Cooper

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry. Should have said the Neighbourhood Watch Association rather than the Americanism

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

The greater good

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Rewatching Hot Fuzz (2007) & only just noticed the evil residents’ committee’s motto is Make Sandford Great Again

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Ah but we have the retained EU Law Act. And at this point I admit I no longer have any idea what I’m talking about

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely this is probably still in force but with Russia as the continuing state (had to do far too much law of state succession earlier in my career) but maybe we’ve therefore suspended it anyway given it’s Russia

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 5d

The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

Do it!

Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d

I hear they practice sharia economics

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