Engineer. Technologist. Father. Reader. Live music fan. Motorcyclist and off-roader. Design and build large-scale IT systems. Neurodiverse. Vision at @cybertzar
1/ The West Midlands Cyber Hub is finally becoming real. We’ve been building toward this “home for cyber” for ages... today feels like Day One (or maybe Day Sixty). Either way: buckle up #BuckleUp#WMCyberHub@WMCyberHubhorkan.com/2025/09/09/west-m…
This unhealthiest of looking dude has been spewing more bullshit than the whole American cattle herd combined!
We’ve been very vocal about this. I believe he should be held accountable for his actions!
He cost a lot of people a lot of money most likely
Today I’m thinking of my dear friend and brother in music, Peter Green!!! 🎶🎸🥁 Happy heavenly birthday ❤️ ❤️ We all miss you down here, but your magic will never fade!!❤️ All my love, Mick xx
According to Bill Gates, digital ID and digital currency are both necessary tools for granting people access to voting, financial services, healthcare, and education.
"We won't be able to do that with traditional systems."
"Once you have the digital money system, then there's all sorts of services and applications that can be built on top of that, whether it's helping with health, or education, or agriculture."
Image conjured by @wayne_horkan in his recent (and brilliant) dissection of why no-one other than the British State System itself was lying in the UK's latest 'China Crisis'. Article linked in replies.
Once you build a backdoor, you can’t choose who walks through it.
Weakening encryption endangers everyone.
The Home Office must drop demands for Apple to undermine their security.
Such demands are from the playbook of authoritarianism, not democracy.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
A systems-level look at Britain’s China crisis, the spy farce, and the architecture of denial keeping the whole thing humming.
My first Substack article; thanks to Ian Dunmore for pushing me to publish.
horkan.substack.com/p/system…
Britain’s institutions aren’t malfunctioning; they’re colliding.
Prosperity against protection.
Departments against each other.
Procedure against personality.
Public calm against state secrecy.
@ciaranmartinoxf says the core systems were never breached.
Also true. Different layer, same machine.
That’s bureaucratic truth: context-bound, technically correct, mutually contradictory.
#CiaranMartin
@Dominic2306 said recently that the system “is working as intended”.
He may be right; not as a conspiracy, but by design.
Each actor is doing their job perfectly within its incentives, and collectively producing chaos.