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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/07/2026

Would you buy it? Or at least pick it up and read the blurb? I’d record the audiobook myself :)

Potential book cover showing a lone chair beneath a water cistern with a perambulator almost out of shot to the right. The text says “A Happy Man
The Walthamstow Murders and a Century of Silence”. Author, me!

Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/07/2026

Is it just me, or has the #HuggingFace incident ended up giving OpenAI exactly the kind of “our models are terrifyingly capable” narrative that Anthropic has been owning recently?

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/07/2026

So, it’s a Bin versus a Has-bin…

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/06/2026

Why? Why would we do this? Outsourcing the most precious moments in parenting? Handing off the love, trust and emotional bedrock of childhood to tech? So we can do more what? Work? TV? TikTok? Doomscrolling? Anyone who uses this needs their head examined.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 03/06/2026

This idea started at a panel in 2017. Today it’s a doctrine. Meet Assume Autonomy: a new approach to cybersecurity for the autonomous era. Operationalised in a way Assume Breach never was. Proud of this one.

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Assume Autonomy Whitepaper

Assume Autonomy is Forescout's security governance and architecture doctrine for defending against AI attacks and other autonomous systems.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/05/2026

A project I had never envisaged is becoming real. 4 chapters into my memoir. 101 book-sized pages, & I’m still only 11. Summer holidays have ended, when I wake up, it’ll be day 1 at comp. Amazed I’ve found so many stories. It’s an incredible exercise I feel like I am really capturing the 70s/80s.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026

Scotland once again appearing to demonstrate they are the only home nation without a giant population of Brexiteering, bigoted, brainwashed. Lang may yer lum reek

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Lots of biased media reporting in favour of reform as usual today Reform did, sadly, win a lot of council seats BUT they do not control those councils. In many regions there is now no overall majority on a council but it is not the case that Reform have control.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/05/2026

I can’t take anyone seriously in politics when insists on calling us ‘Briddish’

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/04/2026

I spoke on a panel at a Gigamon event in the National Portrait Gallery today. This was on the screen behind me. Apparently I have missed my era.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 21/04/2026

Not only will I absolutely be riding this incredible train to the mountains, but at the beginning of the video you get some glimpses of my beautiful, secret, incomparable, home city of Warszawa. If you have never been, do yourself a favour this summer!

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 19/04/2026

TIL I once stripped off during a gig at Uni. I have no memory of this at all.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/04/2026

New research: a year ago 55% of AI models failed basic vulnerability research and 93% failed exploit development. Today, all tested models complete VR, half generate working exploits autonomously, and the most capable can chain vulnerabilities into multi-stage compromises without complex prompting.

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AI Security Testing: Agents Leap From Assistants to Autonomous Hackers

AI is finding bugs humans missed for decades. Forescout's new AI security research reveals the urgent new reality of vulnerability discovery.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 14/04/2026

10 years ago, I discovered the five reasons why Poland is actually Middle Earth: 1. They address each other as "Lord" or "Lady". 2. They pay for things with "Golds" 3. "Second breakfast" is a real meal. 4. There's a place called The Crooked Forest. 5. Sauron holds power to the east.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 25/03/2026

Looks like a significant outage issue with Claude. Downdetector agrees.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 13/03/2026

I have finally pulled my finger out and started writing. Not the book I was planning (yet) but training I am already 27 pages into my autobiography. For a prospective audience of a whopping 6 or 7 people I’m in 1978 & filling in plenty of gaps before I move on. I will reach 1996, where it will end

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026

If you are a fan of female-fronted indie/rock, I’d really recommend giving @spaceacreband.bsky.social a listen. Discovered them today, fell in love, added/downloaded everything. music.apple.com/gb/artist/sp...

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SpaceAcre on Apple Music

Listen to music by SpaceAcre on Apple Music.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/03/2026

TIL: I learned where babies come from by watching a sheep give birth, at the age of 6.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 02/03/2026

Let me be clear: I understand very well that dress matters in specific occasions and cultures, but dress codes are often just status checks in disguise. If you need the uniform to recognise the professional, it was never about professionalism.

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This is How I Do Business | Rik Ferguson

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 27/02/2026

People want the EU to “unravel” for the same reason people try to get alcoholics to have “just one”. They can’t stand how others’ success throws their own failure into relief.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 27/02/2026

I just wrote 4000 words about a day in 1989, and I am really proud of it. Not sure when I can share it with you but it starts like this.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 23/02/2026

Since the early days of the LLM boom, I’ve been trying to help people understand that LLMs “know” precisely nothing. And folks have found that hard to accept. So, this is five years of explanation, condensed into one post: 1/4

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 23/02/2026

We’re entering an era where: Fluency is algorithmic. Confidence has become cheap. Wisdom remains expensive. So discernment becomes the scarce skill. And it matters more than almost any technical ability going forward.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 20/02/2026

Phones don’t capture reality anymore, they optimize it. That should worry you more. Your camera doesn’t just see, it “fixes”: light, faces, skies, color. It decides what looks better and hands you that. Somehow, we accepted that “better” mattered more than “true.” Reality is now only a suggestion

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 17/02/2026

I drew this. You are welcome.

A big-eared bastard of an Indian elephant wearing a crown.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 24/01/2026

When both your parents have long hair and want a family selfie…

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 19/01/2026

There’s advertising, there’s devices… It’s almost as if AI is not a product in itself. Who’d have thought? Here comes the pin…

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 19/01/2026

So, it seems I can still get into my Sharnbrook school shirt. Last time I was wearing it was 1986, I was 16! Pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to get into the trousers though 😀 It’s the shirt that I had a whole bunch of lunatics write messages on the the end of term.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 17/01/2026

One for your hard block list.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 16/01/2026

The bursting of the AI bubble will be orders of magnitude worse than the dot com bubble. So many individuals have already learned to “unthink”, have voluntarily surrendered their creative and critical faculties, that the solution can only be generational.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 16/01/2026

“Love Destruction” was equally angry and equally prescient. “Love my hatred, love my treason It's what you wanted and that's my reason Caught you livin' the empty feeling A corporate handout to you is pleasing You love destruction”

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Warrior Soul - Love Destruction

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 16/01/2026

The Party from all the way back in 1992. Were you not listening? youtu.be/8snFF8FSTxU?...

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The Party

YouTube video by Warrior Soul - Topic

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 08/01/2026

Blimey, Camilla Tominey seems to be a fairly awful human #newsnight. Never encountered the lady before this evening, hope to continue in that vein in future.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 06/01/2026

Oh, and I managed to slam the fingers of my left hand in the armour plating of a tank “window”. I was very accident-prone as a kid.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 05/01/2026

10 years old I managed to close one of the old “slam-shut” British Rail train doors while one hand was still gripping the door frame (I had to lean out to grab the handle). Right thumb burst like a little tomato and I sat holding the wreckage in a tissue all the way back from London to Three Bridges

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 20/12/2025

“I just want to watch ballet, Let the swans dance.” Just discovered this Russian song from 3 years ago. If only this strength of feeling could be translated into something substantive in that oppressive pit of hopelessness.

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Noize MC — Кооператив «‎Лебединое озеро»‎ / Community „Swan Lake“ (текст + English subtitles)

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 19/12/2025

I’m beginning to realise nostalgia doesn’t make me happy. The state of humanity in 2025 stains everything, even my own memories, with self-centred, I’m-alright-Jack, wilfully ignorant selfishness. Looking back doesn’t comfort me. It leaves me angry at how easily we were satisfied, how little it took

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/12/2025

Time for my semi-regular promotion of TraffickCam, an app which helps to identify locations where abuse & trafficking has occurred. All you need to do is upload pics of your hotel room. traffickcam.com please use and RT.

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TraffickCam

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 11/12/2025

With the most recent zero day in Google Chrome (466192044), we hit an uncomfortable milestone. 100 zero day vulnerabilities in 2025 so far. Equalling the full year figure for 2024. One more and 2025 becomes the busiest year on record. I don’t think anyone is seriously betting against that outcome.

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 10/12/2025

Every time I think I have seen the limit of cyber “expert” bios, someone proves me wrong. This is not about gatekeeping. It is about integrity, honesty and transparency in a field where people make decisions that really matter.

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Cybersecurity has a credential problem

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Rik Ferguson @rikferguson.com · 05/12/2025

Never a dull moment with Mister Cluley, and his Smashing Security podcast ❤️

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