Kate Pearce
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Kate Pearce
@secvalve.bsky.social
Aotearoa. Recovered pentester, security pragmatist. Head of security at a place Kiwi know, many other hats. 👩🏽‍💻🏳️‍🌈 Personal views. #infosec #cybersecurity Also @[email protected]
Who needs cloud seeding when you can go cloud deleting.

www.gov.uk/government/n...
August 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Wtf sort of timeline have I found myself in.

“In this paper, we identify directions in the model's activation space—persona vectors—underlying several traits, such as evil, sycophancy, and propensity to hallucinate.”

arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509
August 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I am unreasonably annoyed about this in a government weather app.

Metservice ad-free monthly subscription.
July 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
[Insert obligatory Cinderella joke here]
September 4, 2024 at 5:27 AM
Is LinkedIn… threatening me?
March 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
I was so confused this morning to see a newspaper headline with an ip address in the newspaper sport section this morning…
February 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
The greatest workplace sin has been surpassed.

No longer is “reheating fish curry in the break room microwave” the worst, for we now have this!
November 13, 2023 at 7:57 PM
When life gives you lemons and you can’t even make lemonade because it is mostly just pith.
September 21, 2023 at 9:10 PM