I have been obsessed lately with my blind spots in predicting long-term trends.…
Archives for September 2016
Some Thoughts on the Future of Education
I was thinking earlier about how drastically education could change as the result…
Accessing iCloud Drive via Terminal.app
macOS Sierra introduced iCloud Drive as a deep part of the operating system. It’s…
Authentication’s Last Mile
In communications parlance, the last mile refers to the difficult problem of getting…
IoT + SSRF: A New Attack Vector?
I think we’re going to start seeing a new type of vulnerability in the next…
Virtual Reality: Past and Future
“It has no relationship whatsoever to anything anchored in some kind of metaphysical…
We Are All Battle Mechs for Genes
I’m reading a fantastic book called The Evolution of Everything, and it’s…
My Changing Opinion on Edward Snowden
Someone smart once said something like: You shouldn’t debate topics that…
Mobile Pay is Nice, But What We Need is Mobile Auth
I love Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay, and all the other pays. I think they’re…
Between Two Ravines: Predicting the Future of Human Work
When it comes to predicting what automation will do to the human workforce, there…
My Thoughts on the 10-year Anniversary iPhone
The iPhone 7 was just released (I got a matte black 7), but I’m already…
Some Thoughts on “Out of Band” and “Blind” Vulnerabilities
I was looking through some feeds last week and saw a “Blind SSRF”…
“Leaning In” With New Technologies
A lot of people have been worried about the feel of the new iPhone button. Either…
“The Fear of AI” Actually Means Two Things
Lots of people are talking about “The Fear of AI”, and whether or…
AI Used to Predict the Success of Written Campaigns
I just saw Sonal of a16z tweet out her favorite podcast, so I had to take a look.…
“Things” and “The Internet of Things” Are the Same
We all know what things are. They’re cars, and chairs, and restaurants,…
UnifyID and Continuous Authentication
So I was just watching the pitches for the six Disrupt finalists, and there were…
Skate and Destroy
I skated for the first time in like 25 years today. And I did it at a place where…
Creative Output Requires Quality Inputs
Ideas make you think, and not just about what you happen to be working on. Creative…
Evolution, Hormones, Meaning, Story, and Music
Sep 11, 2016 This is a half-formed idea. Walk with me. Meaning for humans is all…
How to Install Suricata on a Linux Box in 5 Minutes
It’s annoying to me that package managers are so bad at deploying Intrusion…
The Problem With Trump
Even people who dislike Trump are often confused about why. Some people think…
In Defense of AirPods and Removal of the iPhone Headphone Jack
People are different, and they have different needs in their hardware, but I couldn’t…
When to Use Vulnerability Assessments, Pentesting, Red Teams, and Bug Bounties
There’s a lot of debate/conversation taking place right now around in the…
Gaming as Microservices
We’ve been hearing for a while now about how enterprises are moving to microservices.…
