Field notes on systems that have to work
Field-tested explanations of cybersecurity, infrastructure and technical risk—from backstage, temporary networks and twenty years operating real systems.
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Published dispatches
No fearbait. No hacker theatre. Every format starts with a real question and ends with something you can use.
Cyber From The Road
It is simply not your network. Here is the useful threat model and the controls that still matter.
20 Years of Tech
A green dashboard proves that a job ran. It does not prove that the system, team or business can recover.
Why Is This Public?
Repository metadata can reveal history that the current website no longer shows—but a scanner flag is still only an indicator.
The collision is the brand
I have spent more than twenty years building, fixing and investigating technology—and more than fifteen living out of vans, airports, venues and temporary rooms.
Both worlds reward the same things: preparation, calm decisions, clear ownership, useful backups and knowing what to do when the plan stops matching reality.
— Stiv / Hostin.tech
When the question is commercial
Evidence-led assessments and independent advice for founders, investors and technical teams—without fearbait or automated findings presented as fact.
One useful email. No content treadmill.
Where I am. One thing I learned. One tool worth keeping. One thing I'm building. Five minutes, sent from somewhere on the road.