Articles
Writing on cloud infrastructure, digital sovereignty and open systems.
- From Eidsvoll to email: Norway's Constitution Day in a digital age On Norway's Constitution Day, WAYSCloud launched meil.no — a Norwegian productivity suite. May 17th is about self-determination, and in 2026 that also means digital infrastructure.
- Helsinki Shut, NATO Scrambled: Drone Alerts Hit Finland, Latvia Finland and Latvia sounded parallel overnight drone alerts on 15 May. NATO fighters scrambled, Helsinki-Vantaa briefly shut. Read alongside two years of Baltic seabed cable incidents, the pattern reframes European digital sovereignty as operational, not theoretical.
- When Cyber Capability Becomes Something You Have to Be Granted Anthropic withheld access to Mythos, its advanced cyber AI model, from the EU while sharing it with US institutions. The story is not about nationality — it is about structural dependency, and what sovereignty has to mean now that frontier cyber AI sits closer to strategic infrastructure than to productivity tooling.
- Lørenskog-angrepet: Kommunens FAQ sier mer enn pressemeldingen Lørenskog kommune bekrefter at de har mottatt en melding fra aktøren bak dataangrepet og kjenner identiteten til angriperen. Kommunens egen FAQ avslører flere tekniske detaljer enn den første pressemeldingen.
- Nine Weeks Open: Inside CVE-2026-41940 (cPanel/WHM Bypass) A technical walkthrough of the WHM/cPanel authentication bypass — how the exploit chain works, what the in-the-wild numbers actually mean, and the structural lessons for anyone running infrastructure.
- Two pipelines, one drift — how Norway is engineering the warrant out of digital intrusion The Norwegian Tax Administration copies whole phones in tax audits. DSOP-Politi pulls ten years of bank data in seconds. Neither pipeline has a court in the loop at the intrusion.
- One bad signature took down major .de sites for three hours On 5 May 2026 a single malformed signature blacked out .de for hours. The same class of failure is structurally available to .no, .se and .dk.
- Telia's typo explanation raises bigger telecom-trust questions Telia now explains the location-data exposure as a configuration error: P-Access-Network-Info became P-Access-Network-Id. That may explain the mechanism. It does not explain why sensitive cell-level context was allowed to cross a telecom trust boundary.
- Why we built meil.no: a Norwegian productivity suite for everyday digi WAYSCloud is opening the beta for meil.no, a Norwegian productivity suite for email, calendar, contacts, files, browser-based document collaboration and video meetings — built without ads, tracking or profiling.
- Copy Fail: why a local Linux bug matters in Kubernetes and CI/CD CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail) is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation. It looks local on paper, but in Kubernetes, CI/CD and multi-tenant hosts the risk is platform-scale.
- We built something for the capacity that was already there Cloud infrastructure runs below peak utilization most of the time. That idle headroom is already paid for. WAYSCloud Impact puts it to work for research.
- The incident that changed how I think about trust A personal reflection on a 2024 supplier data incident, and why transparency, accountability and follow-up matter more than the failure itself.
- What Public DNS Reveals About Your Company Public DNS does not usually expose the secret. It exposes the terrain around the secret.
- The telecom trust-boundary problem is now mainstream LinkedIn News highlighted my telecom privacy post as an Editors’ Pick. The bigger story is why Citizen Lab, TechCrunch, Ofcom and the Telia Norway case all point to the same infrastructure trust-boundary problem.
- What today’s Oslo earthquake in Norway revealed about infrastructure Today’s earthquake in the Oslo region of Norway caused no major damage. That is exactly why it matters. It still exposed how quickly uncertainty can strain communication, public trust and the hidden layers of a modern city.
- Russia isn't censoring the internet. It's redesigning dependence. Russia is not blocking the internet. It is engineering a new kind of dependence — where state-approved services stay available and the open world becomes friction. Here is how that architecture works, and why it is more effective than a blackout.
- Telecom signaling is still a location privacy problem Ofcom and Citizen Lab show how mobile-network signaling can still expose location-sensitive data. Telia Norway adds a separate SIP/IMS example.
- Dina St Johnston and the independence we forgot Long before hyperscalers and platform lock-in, Dina St Johnston built Britain’s first independent software house. Europe should remember her.
- Your fonts are probably still a hyperscaler dependency Most sites still fetch fonts from third parties by default. That creates external calls, metadata exposure and one more dependency you do not really control.
- Cloud waste is not just a climate problem Hidden cloud waste does not just raise carbon footprint. It also increases cost, reduces visibility and can create security risk when infrastructure is forgotten.
- How “getting a hobby” turned into Radar Radar started as a joke about needing a hobby outside cloud infrastructure and became a small side project for making security advisories easier to read.
- Finland’s state IT breach now raises espionage concerns Finland is investigating a breach at its state IT provider as suspected espionage after police said the stolen dataset may affect national security and cause harm.
- Why signaling leaks are the hardest class of failures to detect Why some of the most persistent data exposures happen when systems behave exactly as designed — and why they are so difficult to detect.
- Telia: Location data leaked through telecom signaling A Telia case revealed how standard SIP signaling exposed location data during call setup — not through hacking, but through normal system behavior.
- Cloud in Europe is entering a different phase Cloud in Europe is shifting from scale and flexibility toward control, compliance and predictability. This is not a trend. It reflects a broader shift in how infrastructure is understood — from a technical layer to a strategic concern.
- Why I chose to expose what most people hide I don’t trust perfect systems. This is why we built a Trust Center — to document what actually happens behind the scenes.
- Sovereignty is not something you claim — this is how we approach it Sovereignty is often treated as a claim. In practice, it’s about understanding control, dependencies and what actually happens when you’re the one running the system.
- When paper wealth becomes real tax in Norway startups An analysis of how wealth tax on paper valuations affects founders, liquidity and company building in Norway.
- When regulation meets encryption in modern cloud systems Cloud infrastructure is built on encryption and non-access by design. This analysis explores why proposed CSAR measures may conflict with that model — and what it means for security and responsibility.
- Surveillance and security: the architectural paradox Security and surveillance cannot coexist without architectural consequences.
- Metadata and digital identity: mapping behavior without content Metadata alone can reveal identity, behavior and relationships — without accessing content.
- Bunads and bandwidth: What Norway’s national day really represents A look at Norway’s Constitution Day — and how a celebration of history, identity and community connects to modern questions about technology, control and digital sovereignty.
- Selected for Antler Nordics March 2025 startup cohort Selected for Antler Nordics’ March 2025 cohort and what the experience revealed about building WAYSCloud under pressure.
- When the grid goes dark: infrastructure dependency in Europe A regional outage is never local in a connected infrastructure landscape.
- What this map reveals about Norway’s fragile digital connections A look at how Norway’s reliance on a few subsea cables creates hidden vulnerabilities — and why digital infrastructure is more fragile than it seems.
- Speaking at CMS Kluge IT Procurement Forum on cloud and AI Speaking at CMS Kluge’s IT Procurement Forum on cloud, AI and governance, and how public sector decisions are evolving.
- Arguing for sovereignty — on Microsoft’s stage in Denmark An unexpected pitch on digital sovereignty at Microsoft’s headquarters — and what it revealed about dependency, infrastructure and Europe’s direction.
- Presenting digital HC cards at DNB — Identity Day Norway Presenting a digital HC card solution at DNB Identity Day Norway, and what it revealed about public sector digitalization.
- When “oops” becomes part of the code in production systems Common developer mistakes — from expired SSL certificates to untested backups — and how they quietly become part of production systems.
- Women who shaped modern computing Foundational contributions from women shaped how modern computing systems work.
- Margaret Hamilton and modern software reliability Modern software engineering was shaped by failure handling and system design during Apollo.
- When software failures become catastrophic Small software errors can escalate into catastrophic failures under real-world conditions.
- It was never just an office — it was people Our office in Kyiv was destroyed following the invasion in 2022. A reflection on people, resilience and what matters when everything else stops.