About Writeblocked

30 Oct 2020

I started this website back in 2011 when I was the Program Director of the Graduate Digital Forensic Programs at Champlain College, which I joined in August 2010.

At that time my goal was to share a bit of my knowledge, although shortly after setting up the site I started hosting DFIROnline, which ended up taking up most of the spare time I wsa prepared to allocate to the website.

DFIROnline stopped when I moved back to Australia in 2013 and started working for Trustwave, for some reason I seemed to have less free time than when I was working at the college! However after a 5 year break (time flies when you are having fun) the backend code for the site has been rebuilt and I have restored my old posts. Now all I have to do is keep making new ones.

A bit more about me

I have been working in IT since 1999 and have bounced around between the private sector, academia, law enforcement (where I got started in digital forensics), back to academia and am currently back in the private sector.

In my limited spare time I telemark ski, kayak and mountain bike. I still own a half share in a East Coast 31 back in Australia.

One day I will sail back to Australia.

If you really want to know more about me my linkedin profile is here

You can also follow me on twitter under @MikeWilko

All views expresed on this site are my own and do not represent those of employer, or anyone else in any way.

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During the few years when I was first running this blog I tried a number of content management systems, including Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal. While they certainly all performed their core function they all had a number of limitations. These included having to learn a new formating language, requiring plugins to add functionality, which then require a bunch of libraries that need to be maintained, changing layout required mastering a templating system or trusting a third party template and finally the constant patching in order to address security issues (which also demonstrated that the platform was never secure in the first place) drove me nuts. In addition to those issues I have also investigated many website breaches over the past six or seven years. While I know enough about programming to figure out what is going on with any language it takes time to learn the finer details and look up functions that I am not familiar with. So all this contributed to making the decision to write my own CMS in php.

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Writeblocked/DFIROnline Privacy Policy

Your privacy is respected, as a moderately paranoid (well some would say terminally paranoid) individual I hate providing anyone with my personal information. This site does not use cookies, or any third party tracking bugs, images or anything else. Any information collected on these pages will only be used for the purposes of maintaining the site. In simple words:

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