The reality is this: the acting director of America's civilian cybersecurity agency uploaded sensitive government contracting documents to ChatGPT's public platform. Multiple automated alerts were triggered.

A Department of Homeland Security investigation was launched. And somehow, this still happened. From my former life in government service, I can tell you this isn't just embarrassing.

It's a systems failure that reveals fundamental problems with how we approach privileged access, AI governance, and the dangerous assumption that senior officials understand operational security better than the controls designed to protect them.

Your smart home isn't smart: it's a corporate surveillance network that makes the Stasi look like amateurs. While you're asking Alexa about the weather, Amazon's recording everything and building psychological profiles to flog to advertisers.

Your Samsung TV captures 30 screenshots per minute, Google Home logs every conversation, and data brokers are making millions from your family's most intimate moments.

The FBI warns these devices can be hijacked, yet homes everywhere are stuffed with always-listening corporate spies disguised as convenience gadgets. We've voluntarily built our own digital panopticon and called it "smart living." Absolute madness.

It’s 2025, but some UK councils and NHS departments are still sending confidential data via fax machines.

That’s right. No encryption, no audit trail, just a shrieking relic from the 1980s spewing out safeguarding case notes or your latest blood test results from the GUM clinic into a shared office tray.

With the analogue switch-off looming, this isn’t just old-fashioned, or quaint, it’s reckless. Why the hell are printer manufacturers are still enabling this madness - Looking at you HP, Epson, Xerox et al.

If your council or trust or SMB still faxes, they’re not just behind the times. They’re holding the door wide open to the next data breach.