Cambionn

Messing with computers since I was a little kid, formal study in Software Engineering, switched to infosec because it's more fun. Security Officer by trade. Volunteer for the NLLGG. Love sharing my passion for privacy, and can be found at events regularly. If not as speaker, as an attendee. ・ Like everything I post online under my (user)name, my posts here are based strictly on personal opinions and unrelated to any employer, organisation, or other secondary party. For more background on who I am, you can check the rest of this site. ・ I’m dyslexic. I do my best to prevent them, but please don't be too harsh on my typing errors.

TPM isn’t the problem

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025 by Cambionn

Ever since Microsoft announced the TPM 2.0 requirement for Windows 11, I’ve seen people flip out over it for various reasons. However, based on the reasons given, there seems to be mainly a lot of misconceptions about it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely not a fan of Windows 11. But from everything that is … Read more

AI isn’t bad, the current usage is

November 5, 2025November 4, 2025 by Cambionn

Now, this post is going to require some nuance on a currently rather touchy subject. But let’s start with saying I’m not gonna tell you how great ChatGPT, CoPilot, and all those other big AI systems you see everywhere are. If you’re looking for a reason why it’s actually not so bad, this is not … Read more

Interoperability, we need to be cautious about it

September 17, 2025 by Cambionn

Text: "Interoperability, we need to be caution about it" on a background of interconnecting nodes and lines with a blurred city viewed from the top in the background.

This take will probably create some disagreements, I am well aware. And don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan op interoperability when done well. In an ideal world all our software would be interoperable and we all have the freedom to choose our clients and providers without consequence. But sadly we don’t live in … Read more

Some thoughts on Proton

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025 by Cambionn

Every now and then, something happens that I can hardly talk about in the 500 characters I have on Mastodon making it relatively hard to dive deep into it. Well that’s an issue no more. After a bit of work I’ve now got a page on my site I can post about things as extensively … Read more