I have a friend named Tim Tyler, and he’s one of the smartest and nicest…
Archives for October 2016
More Captured Mirai Botnet Traffic Analysis
So, related to this post, I did some more analysis by letting a listener run for…
Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook Can Only Go So Far Without a Mobile Play
Microsoft is kicking ass. I love Windows 10. I love Office 365. Azure is holding…
Some Basic Credential and Country Analysis of Incoming Mirai (IoT Botnet) Traffic
I’ve been messing with Robert Graham’s TelnetLogger project today…
Online GeoIP Lookups Using ipinfo.io
There are lots of ways to resolve an IP to a country/location. The fastest way…
The Power of Bottom-up (Evolution) vs. Top-down (Design)
I’ve been half-speed grappling with an idea for a few weeks now after finishing…
How to See What Facebook Thinks of You
One of the best ways to see what people think of you (media wise) is to see what…
Collecting Links Into Your Reading List Using Safari
If you are a Safari user and spend a lot of time collecting links for later reading,…
On Apple’s Innovation and Quality
I constantly hear—mostly on Twitter—about how Apple has jumped the…
Apple’s Schrödinger Innovation
It’s fascinating to watch smart tech people serially misunderstand Apple’s…
The Future of Automated Value Exchange for Online Content Creators
The way online content creators currently make money is through ads. The value…
How I Produce the Unsupervised Learning Podcast
I have a show called Unsupervised Learning, where I do Content Curation as a Service.…
DEVOPS is Fundamentally About Practice and Improvement
I’m no @realgenekim, but I’ve been a student of the DEVOPS movement…
Why Rich People Don’t Notice Regular People
[ This is part of the Evolutionary Psychology Explanation Series (EPES), where…
How to Unlink Microsoft OneNote from the Cloud (OneDrive)
If you’re in any sort of sensitive business you might not want every note…
We Need Mobile Phone Call Spam Functionality
After like 20 years of trying, we’re making some good progress on email…
Pre-suasion vs. Persuasion
In 1588, British troops massed against a sea invasion from Spain at Tilbury were…
How AI Will Improve Human Customer Service (Right Before It Kills It)
One of the best things that came out of Uber was that it made cab drivers nicer.…
Expect a Move Towards Internet Resilience
With the recent DDoS attacks against Brian Krebbs and DYN DNS, I had an idea about…
Disambiguation of Security and Obscurity
Since putting up my post titled Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer back in 2009…
Machine Learning is the New Statistics
I’ve been trying to think of a way to describe how big Machine Learning…
2016 Took Scott Adams From Us
2016 has been brutal. I’m not going to count the ways (because that’d…
Two Ways to Disrupt an Election
It occurs to me that there are two related by separate ways to disrupt elections:…
Thoughts on the Dangers of Human Job Replacement from Automation and AI
There are many articles—like this one—that say that automation and…
The Inevitable Purpose of AI Will Be Jailbreaking the Universe
Humans have faced, and will continue to face, a number of existential threats…
