Nick Hutton @nickdothutton
30 years in Cyber Security, Product, Investor, Founder, Engineer. Armchair interests: geopolitics, propaganda, persuasion, ideological subversion. blog.eutopian.io The Cyber-Industrial Complex Joined November 2016-
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In 2026, I believe there has been enough published for people to no longer question whether or not cyberspace operations have meatspace consequences. Nerds used to think cyberspace operations would eliminate the need for physical actions, but the reality was always to use it as another mechanism to achieve ends.
@Cellebrite @brewerov @citizenlab @AishaKDown 6/ It gets darker: we recognized some names Russian authorities had searched for. They'd been targets of FSB-linked hacking attempts that we investigated alongside @accessnow & @DeptFirst. Was Cellebrite used to feed a targeting pipeline? We're investigating.
Next week already shot for RICU by the looks of it.
@AlistairCarns Over 10 to 20 years, US companies have significantly outperformed British companies. The US S&P 500 has historically delivered growth over 400% over two decades, while the UK's FTSE 100 has grown by roughly 70% in capital value over the same time frame.
"...a full remote-access trojan that seems to have been put together by someone who knows what they are doing." grack.com/blog/2026/06/2…
@DanNeidle If you have prospects, or dream of having prospects, and are not already unwinding your UK affairs then I don’t know what to say. The hour is already late.
I am not the only one who sees energy accumulating in the system. Latent. Waiting to be tapped. Surprising how disinterested politicians are in this. Should have paid more attention in Physics class.
This rise in unhappiness is not just important in its own right, but because it's affecting politics. This big pool of discontented men = potential energy for unscrupulous politicians.
Cash deposited at a bank, by an individual or business is not sitting in a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool of coins. Banks invest it by lending it (it becomes legally theirs). They are required to keep aside a small fractional reserve of 30-days outflows, to cover withdrawals. It is not unproductive.
Effort asymmetry is rude. There is no obligation for me to spend more time reading text than it took you to prompt it.
@archer_rs Acclimatisation/adaption over a long period. x.com/nickdothutton/…
Reminder of the trajectory of the UK, 1900 to 2025. Including which PM presided over the best of times.
@DanielMiessler There are 2 types of people. There are radiators, and there are drains. While both can be mistaken in their beliefs and conclusions, you really need to avoid bringing drains in your organisation or group. Fortunately social media is forever, so you can easily identify them.
And the beautiful think about the LNK vulnerability is: This could've happened in Rust just as well.
CVE-2010-2568 (Stuxnet LNK Vulnerability) the most technically sophisticated Windows vulnerability. Stuxnet abused a flaw in how Windows Explorer rendered shortcut (.LNK) icons. Simply viewing a folder containing a malicious shortcut could execute code. The vulnerability itself
In 1873 the UK had 650 operating blast furnaces. Today it has 2. Both will be gone not long after 2028. The UK had 41 operational nuclear reactors in 1981. Today it has 9 (8 are at the end of their life, off by 2030).
Thinking in gates, latches, cycle times, macrocells. The the state's machine is broken.
@Cal_III because the political class cannot do what is needed to get the UK growing again.
Average UK house price in 1970 was £4,480. In 1979 was £19,829. The 70s was characterised by strikes, economic headwinds, UK joining the European Economic Community, and needing to inflate away a lot of existing debt while maintaining high new borrowing.
@samueldiamond @DKThomp UK has several policies focused directly on reducing absolute electricity and energy consumption, independent of their carbon-emissions. e.g. ESOS, ECO, and MEES. All focus on energy consumed not emissions.
@AndrewHazlett @AlecStapp UK real GDP per capita flatlined since the 2008 financial crisis. Hovered in real terms between £37,500 and £40,600 over past 15yrs. Nominal has improved a bit, but adjusted for inflation... no. This is the standard of living killer. Debt will gradually drown us.
Reminder of the trajectory of the UK, 1900 to 2025. Including which PM presided over the best of times.
We have decades of great IC design talent for this kind of money in UK.
Sat down to look at the UK salary survey responses, they are interesting, I am still working through all the questions and responses. We had about 500 responses to date. A little sneak peak.
or/of them. At least you know it's not LLM written 😁
People, even professionals, often reach the wrong conclusions when fundamental economics or probabilities are shifted by some new, external discovery or capability. We are in an age where you will see this time and again. Not only in disciplines transformed by AI (although AI will touch all) but to a degree in energy, manufacturing, education, warfare, transportation, space, and more. Orthodoxy takes decades to change. More accurately it often has to age-out, even when it isn't propped up by gatekeeping, vested interests, and sometimes... corruption. Plate Tectonics (definitive only since 1963), and my ancestor's work on Uniformitarianism in the 1780s (replacing Catastrophism) caused many texts to be pulped or chapters expunged. The same will need to happen now in other disciplines. Politicians will struggle the most. Forms of abundance will replace relative scarcity. The value of labour will change. The constraints will change. Will they need to age-out, will we have to rid ourselves or them proactively, or will they learn and adapt?
I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner. Well, maybe not wrong, but at a minimum I missed something obvious because I was thinking like a doctor who's been practicing for 25 years. And I didn't explain my point well. First, where I was wrong: All historical
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neural oscillator of ... @mycoliza
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