Dr. Bruce Simpson

Cybersecurity & Internet researcher. Timeline:
1994: 1st Internet use: blueboxed onto CompuServe
1997: #phrack denizen; nfsshell'd exam paper
2001: Onsite cybersecurity at JP Morgan.
2003: FreeBSD Security Team; TCP-MD5; mentored pf(4).
2004: International Computer Science Institute fellowship.
2010: CRC Canada uses my MANET stack
2011: Every iPhone IPv6 connection invokes my code.
2016: Awarded PhD in Internet architecture.

Do I wish to join the Cult of the Superficially Viable Artifacts? No.

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6447-9025
SourceHut profile page: https://sr.ht/~bms
Keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:EKRTLHAP4FI25N7RCI4VHUAGUQ

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2026-08-27 03:58:58 GMT

Why does the BBC continue to obfuscate and mislead people in their journalism about "AI" branded technologies? A Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) pipeline IS NOT "SURGICAL CHATGPT", as the bleeding obvious category committed by the BBC journalist proclaims.
MICCAI offers ML driven realtime diagnostic / evaluation. There's no freaking comparison. The root in the lede is the use of a deep-learning artificial neural network (DANN), not a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT). If there were a GPT-based large language model (LLM) involved in surgery I'd rather make an informed choice of possible death, quite frankly.
This is totally irresponsible and conveniently misrepresents what was actually employed and what was achieved. I wish they would stop doing this, it's disgusting, and I have withdrawn support of the BBC itself some time ago as all the tells of its co-option have been there since the late 2000s.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg5n7y68xo
(Oh wait, the NHS effort involved was co-funded by Google, and the current BBC Director-General is the former head of Google Europe. Not saying correlation implies causation at all. Not at all. la da da dee dee.... Officer Barbrady from South Park again)
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2026-08-16 06:54:15 GMT

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My unofficial risk assessment of Matrix initially was: approaching pre-TLS IRC in its constitution.
I see I wasn't too far off.

2026-08-13 06:12:57 GMT

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How about "Western State Terrorism" by Chomsky et al?

2026-08-08 14:49:36 GMT

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For some obscure reason this immediately reminds me of the cover of Queen's "News of the World".

2026-07-27 13:53:23 GMT

Please heed Dijkstra's wisdom nearly 50 years after he spoke the words: "...after careful consideration I concluded that the intellectual challenge presented by the programming task is, indeed, as unprecedented as the high-speed automatic computer itself. And it had caused in my mind a shift of attention from "how to discover the unexpected" towards "how to avoid unmastered complexity", towards "how to reduce the demands made on our quantitatively limited powers of reasoning". "You must take my word for it, that past experience has made me a firm believer that this newer aspect of thinking, i.e. how to avoid unmastered complexity, can indeed be taught. ... Among other things it can be done by the identification and subsequent description of the more productive "complexity generators"."
Those last two words keep looping around at the back of my mind every day now... and if you mine Dijkstra's secondary references, you'll find gold. The man was an expert at the very act of thinking, and he was well read to boot.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD480.html