Why scambaiting videos leave security professionals with more questions than answers. Scambaiters like Kitboga, Jim Browning and Pierogi educate millions, waste scammers’ time, and undoubtedly prevent people from becoming victims. As a security professional, I genuinely appreciate what they do. But every time I watch one of these videos, I find myself asking the same…

Privacy, Identity Theft, Data Minimization, and Why Your Driver’s License Is Not a Bar Tab Deposit Opening a tab at a bowling alley shouldn’t require handing over your driver’s license or national ID card. Yet many businesses still ask customers to leave government-issued identity documents behind as collateral, often storing them in plain sight with…

ITIL Change Control, Organizational Change, and Why Project Managers Suddenly Need Psychology Degrees Once upon a time, Change Management meant raising an RFC, preparing a rollback plan, and surviving the Change Advisory Board. Today, it also means stakeholder engagement, communication plans, adoption metrics, workshops, and apparently having the emotional intelligence of a licensed therapist Whether…

Why Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks for Flight Management Systems The Boeing 747 is often cited online as proof that aviation still runs on floppy disks — but the reality is a bit more nuanced. In this Rant, we take a closer look at how certain older aircraft, particularly some 747-400 configurations, still use…

The Strange State of the Tech Job Market In this short episode, Jack takes a look at the current state of the IT hiring market — where job postings seem plentiful, but actual opportunities often feel strangely elusive. From “entry-level” roles asking for a decade of experience to companies searching for the mythical full-stack, cloud,…

Why Your Bank Account Just Got Hit Multiple Times Jack’s Rants dives into the world of banking mainframes and the batch jobs that quietly keep everything moving — until one of them doesn’t. What starts as a routine overnight run turns into a multiple transactions on thousands of accounts that didnt happen in the real…