I’m Lambert. I’m a security researcher with a particular focus: I think of ways to make security simple and practical.
A lot of security is really complicated and sometimes not even practical. I try to break security down into easily digestible ideas that many people can understand and use in their day-to-day lives.
Why “sane” security?
Well, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, once said: “I don’t trust security people to do sane things.” After the small cringe from feeling personally attacked, I figured he was kind of right. Yeah, many security people really do do some pretty insane things. Here, I try to inject some sanity into the mix, and try to operate at a level of “functional paranoia”.
What’s with the bear?
Oh, you must mean this guy.
ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ: Hello!
I use him as a tool to help me get my points across, and also as comic relief to keep people’s attention. I think it’s much easier for people to understand something complicated when you explain it to them using life-like examples, so I invented this little guy to help me with that and ended up calling him “Kuma”.
ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ: Did he just call me a tool?