I nominated Declan Ingram for the InternetNZ board - he is an amazing human being and super well known in the New Zealand infosec space.

He helped set up CERT (Cyber Emergency Response Team) NZ and was their deputy director for quite a while.

Please support him if you can!

#kikorangi #internetnz

Bernard Hickey: The Govt’s retrospective law wrecks 33 pay equity deals. $17 billion in wages & back-pay will not now go to over 150,000 workers. That means the $14 billion of tax cuts going mostly to landlords & highest earners are being paid for by wage cuts for the poorest NZers, mostly women.

I would like to thank Oracle for their masterclass and case study in how not to communicate about a cybersecurity incident. 🙏😊

I joined InternetNZ last night because I've seen that the Free Speech Union has suddenly taken an interest and is trying to unbalance it in their favour. If you want to balance that out you might want to join too? I'm happy to fund if $$ are an issue! internetnz.nz/membership/

it's quite something when the NZ government pays a UK company to buy Australian baked goods, which the responsible Minister then calls "classic kiwi pies."

ROI

The "first they came..." poem gets quoted and quoted and quoted and quoted and you know what, we do in fact know who they're coming for first, right now, and that is trans people, and the answer needs to be "absolutely the fuck not, you motherfuckers," full stop.

There's a reason why the people will not see Luigi Mangione as a villain, no matter how hard the cops and the press try to distract & divide us.

The truth is too obvious, and too ugly.

Read this.
Brownlee overrules advice from the Clerk (who is deity adjacent from a knowledge pov) AND Kuriger who is from his own party.
Dogs are lovely, but THIS (I’m groping for descriptors) appalling legislation was rammed further under urgency last night.

#nzpol

I think I’ve accidentally hyper-focused my life into a singularity. Again.