A Techno-Legal Update
Vignettes from the intersection of regulation, national security and technology. Composed by Ravi Nayyar.
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Bringing It Home (opens the original)
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In promoting its September cyber summit, the Australian Financial Review devoted column inches to, no prizes for guessing, cyber risks from frontier AI—>how Boards and execs need to ‘go back to the drawing board’. Never mind that regulators and Five Eyes cyber security agencies did not recommend that, but rather that organisations must manage prevailing cyber risk categories more efficiently; something I also pointed out in <a href="https://www.socialcyb
Corporate Misgovernance (opens the original)
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Welcome back to On the Blink, a series delving into the July 2026 outage of the Telstra mobile network.If you haven’t read the prior editions, here’s the series page.As I have flagged throughout this series, Telstra considers that this incident stemmed from the routine restart of a legacy Network Time Protocol (‘NTP’) server in its Melbourne Exhibition Exchange after a chassis replacement. The restart triggered the server’s GPS card to reset its clock to 2006 as
Relations with a Less-Trusting Public (opens the original)
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Welcome back to On the Blink as we dive deep into the July 2026 outage of the Telstra mobile network.If you haven’t read the prior editions, do yourself a favour and check ‘em out.<img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!37xd!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:
Paperwork which Mattered (opens the original)
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Welcome back to On the Blink, a series delving into the July 2026 outage of the Telstra mobile network.If you haven’t read the prior editions, do yourself a favour and check ‘em out.<img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!37xd!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
What’s Old Is New Again (opens the original)
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Welcome to the second edition of On the Blink, a series of essays from yours truly on the July 2026 outage of the Telstra mobile network.If you haven’t read the opening instalment, do yourself a favour and check it out.<img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/f
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