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Stepto

26 Thursday Oct 2017

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Stephen Toulouse (Stepto) passed away this morning.

We worked together in Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft back a dozen years or so ago, and lived (at the time) in the same small town.

Over the years, we changed jobs, and he moved away. But we still kept in touch, and we still saw each other at conferences.

It was 2016, the first day of DEF CON. My brother Joshua had gone in for routine surgery that morning.

As things were starting in Las Vegas, I got a phone call. Something had gone horribly wrong. Over the course of the day, the doctors attempted to save his life.

The thing is, DEF CON is big. There are tens of thousands of people, and more going on than anyone could possibly try to do or see. But Stepto sat with me at a cafe in Paris, while I waited to find out if the last desperate attempt would work.

It didn’t.

But that wasn’t something he could do anything about. What he could do, and did, was sit with me in the middle of what was literally the busiest week of the year in our field, and give me hope, and a friend to talk to.

The World is Not Fair

16 Saturday Sep 2017

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It will not ease the dying, nor comfort the bereaved. It does not tend to the sick. It will not lay low the tyrant, nor raise up the righteous.

The world does not care.

Those tasks are reserved for us.

The Job Will Not Save You

21 Monday Nov 2011

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You should watch The Wire. All five seasons.

But here is a message from it for the game industry, as the seasonal death march gives way to Christmas layoffs…

Listen to Lester Freamon…

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