I'm an engineer, and in true engineering style I believe that things shouldn't just 'be' instead they should 'be useful'. As such, I love the usefulness of computers, the systems that are used to connect them together, the plethora of protocols that can be used and services that can be run.
Never before has the internet been such a wondrous place, so many devices, so much software, so much potential and enthusiasm to use it, and now it needs a hand in the right direction. Does that sound a bit stuck up? Well, yes, you are right, it does, most people know more than enough about computers and the internet to get by. The problem as I see it is that there is a lot of good common sense out there, but not that much good practice. Everyone knows it, but everyone forgets from time to time to apply those techniques that keep them, their families and their computers safe.
With all this wonderfulness comes the bad side, having every computer able to talk to every other computer brings with it problems. People who want to steal, people who want to destroy, people who want to deface. I don't like those people and want to help others to avoid them.
So I decided it was time, and I was ready, to publish my own internet security website. A place where I could have a free no-nonsense guide for fellow webscape dwellers to learn. You may have noticed that this isn't my website. When I started to sketch out what the site would look like I came up with this:
That took me about 20 minutes to do, is by no means complete and the first 10 of those minutes were spent finding a mind mapping tool I liked. That short exercise made me realise that I have a lot of content to produce before I can even contemplate getting a site up and running. So here was the inspiration for Dave Bytes, a place where I can start to blog about internet and computer security whilst slowly building the website in the background.
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