Mike Bursell

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I've been in and around Open Source since around 1997, and have been running (GNU) Linux as my main desktop at home and work since then: not always easy... I'm a security bod and architect, co-founder of the Enarx project, and am currently CEO of a start-up in the Confidential Computing space. I have a blog - "Alice, Eve & Bob" - where I write (sometimes rather parenthetically) about security. I live in the UK and like single malts.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award Emerging Contributor Award 2018 DevOps Cloud Gamer Linux Geek Contributor Club Author

Authored Content

How OpenChain can transform the supply chain

Is blockchain a security topic?

Yet again, we need to understand how systems and the business work together and be honest about the fit.

A network of people

The politics of the Linux desktop

If you're working in open source, why would you use anything but Linux as your main desktop?

Improve your DevOps security game with Ansible Vault

Why microservices are a security issue

Maybe you don't want to decompose all your legacy applications into microservices, but you might consider starting with your security functions.

Phire CMS: A feature-rich, lightweight content management system

10 easy steps from proprietary to open source

This commonwealth does not apply to proprietary software: what stays hidden does not enlighten or enrich the world.

How university open debates and discussions introduced me to open source

Product pitches aren't on the list of reasons why we attend conferences

Just to be entirely clear: I hate product pitches.

Hearts, stars, and dollar signs

Why I love technical debt

If technical debt can be named, it can be documented.

Authored Comments

21 Aug 2018

Confessions of a recovering Perl hacker

We Are Not Alone. :-)

17 Aug 2018

How software users are like kittens

In the version of this on my blog (follow the link), I made exactly that point, but we decided to reduce the number of footnotes in this version!).