About

I’m Arthur Badger, and in my day job I help Fortune 500 companies wrestle with information security and compliance. Welcome to un-trusted.net.

Here I will think out loud about, and attempt to illuminate, the topics of trust and untrust in inter-connected computing systems, as well as other technology topics where I think I might have something useful to say. I’ve become convinced that the current approach to establishing trust is at best poorly thought out and poorly scalable, reliant on a variety of assumptions needing to be challenged, and very likely unsustainable.

I hope to find common ground with both sides of the security versus compliance debate, and provoke new ways of thinking about the problems.

By the way, I make no claims to any great or profound wisdom here. Only a body of experience that has put me personally and professionally in the cross-hairs of these problems, a burning desire to participate in a more rational and reasoned process, and a willingness to share my ideas.

Welcome to my soapbox. Hope you find it enlightening.

–@wb