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For over 25 years, I’ve worked across web development, security and search. I’m now the CTO at SearchPilot, and I write about the interesting things I find along the way.

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  1. Security · March 2023

    The Time I Hacked Google’s Manual Actions Database

    How a missing authorisation check exposed reports I was never meant to see.

  2. Security · July 2020

    Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords

    A look at a flaw in Zoom’s web client and the disclosure that followed.

  3. Security & SEO · March 2018

    Google exploit via XML Sitemaps to manipulate search results

    An experiment at the intersection of search engines and security.