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Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
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Me when I heard that one of our PhD students wants to learn more about vim:

submitted 21 minutes ago • 1 comment

DAAAAMN.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

When I was demonstrating to my students how to break a simple monoalphabetic cipher using frequency analysis and some basic crossword skills, a student had a very good question: "Could an AI do this?" I said yes, probably, but I haven't tried it. So tonight I decided to see if ChatGPT could do it..

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Our Australian Spy Museum Featured Artefact this week is the 1960's Soviet spy radio model R-353, also known as a Proton. Just like cyber and OSINT, vintage espionage teaches you a fascination and even respect for the inventiveness of our opponents. Sometimes they do damn fine work. 1/2

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Great fun today with the students, I held a lecture on tactical signals intelligence (everyone's talking about Five Eyes, so naturally I had to do something different and teach them about Funkabwehr vs. SOE/OSS in occupied Europe during WWII: triangulation, etc.). Also: numbers stations and Morse.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

We had friends over last night and my son (12) tried to find a CD with a specific 90s song for us old folks to enjoy. He disappeared for a while and then returned with a disc, "I burned a new one for you." Having a kid born in 2012 who knows how to burn a CD without any help makes me proud.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Swedish Defence University is advertising a postdoc in quantitative narrative geopolitics. The role involves applying data science methods to examine how narratives shape international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline: August 31. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Day 4 of the Intel Center exercise. I have a team of students here right now who were supposed to go home almost an hour ago, but they're still here, scrutinizing satellite images, engaged in focused discussions on the movements of various Indian military vessels. Lovely to see such dedication.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Day 3 of the Intel Center exercise. Currently quiet, but soon the morning shift will arrive for the 0900 tasking session. Today's daily task will be about the Russian activities in the Baltic and along the Finnish border. They will also have to wrap up the mid-week task (Ukraine/US/RU/EU scenarios).

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Day 1 of the OSINT Center exercise in progress. After the 0900 tasking session the students got to work on their three tasks (1 x daily task, one more complex mid-week task and finally the most demanding end-of-week task). The 1300 SITREP indicated good progress on all tasks.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment