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Archives for December 2016
InfoSec Has an Attribution Problem, But Not Just the One You’re Thinking Of
When you hear “Attribution Problem” in infosec spheres you naturally…
How the Left Won the War for the Right
This tweet got Steve Martin bashed online as a sexist. He had to remove the tweet…
How to Interact with Someone More Accomplished or Well-known Than You
There are right and wrong ways to attempt to interact with someone far more important…
Attacking AI-based Digital Assistants
I think one of the coolest new attack surfaces in coming years will be figuring…
Why Law Firms Are Such Attractive Hacking Targets
When you’re choosing victims as an attacker it’s important to waste…
2017 Interests: New and Existing
The week between Christmas and New Years is a particularly good time to plan for…
Sisense: A Voice-activated and Contextual Data Interface
A connected lightbulb, such as Phillips’, is setup on WiFi and then shows up…
The Future of Warfare is Drones
One of the most important things in war is knowledge of what the enemy is doing.…
Free Will’s Endgame is Absurdism
Absurdism is fundamentally about the inherent disconnect between what humans seek…
Information Security Could Benefit from an Economics Education
One of the things that would most benefit the information security field is for…
Autonomous Drones Will Change Many Things
Inexpensive drones are disruptive by themselves. And they’ll become even…
Spend No More Than 5% of Your Time Looking at What Other People Are Doing
I think one of the healthiest thing one can possibly do is spend their time focused…
The Difference Between Machine Learning and Statistics
With the rise of interest in Machine Learning there are a couple of different…
The Hierarchy of Public Social Media Images
I think there’s a hierarchy to the images that people use to represent themselves…
AirPod Impressions (Day 1)
I got my AirPod’s in-store on launch day after being second in line. The…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 58
This week’s topics: Yahoo!, Shadowbrokers, Building Your Own Honeytrapping…
Implementing Honeytokens, Honeynets, and Honeytraps With Zero Budget
Honeytraps are a class of detective controls that work by leaving false treasure…
Eliminating the Dread of Reinstalls
I hate reinstalls. Whether it’s getting a new laptop and having days (really…
Cisco’s Alexa 1M DNS Replacement, Isn’t
When Amazon said they were discontinuing the Alexa 1M list (or making it a pay…
The Hidden Contradiction in Gender Equality and Gender Swapping
There’s a strange contradiction lurking in gender identity politics. The…
AirPods Have the Potential to Make Computers Omni-Present
People remain genuinely baffled by AirPod excitement. They attribute it to fanboys…
Standardizing on New York Times for Core News Input
For the last several years my muscle memory has taken me to CNN as my main news…
Site Redesign 2017
It’s been quite a while since I’ve messed with my design, but I finally…
2017 and the Rise of the Newsletter
I’ve been all about some newsletters recently, and I think I know why. We’ve…
How Cyber Attack and Defense Can Leverage Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
A lot of people are starting to talk about how Machine Learning can help attackers…
2016’s Word of the Year Should Be Gaslighting
A lot of big news sites did hard-hitting pieces on Trump and his drunken backhanding…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 57
This week’s topics: Russia gave us attribution for Christmas, the NSA is…
Gratitude is the Epicenter of Happiness
As I get older I become increasingly convinced that the center of happiness is…
Why You Should Act on Inspiration Immediately
Many of us are struck with brilliant ideas at random points during the day. Maybe…
How to Raise an Employee’s IQ by 10 Points in 2 Minutes
Everyone wants to get more from their employees, but there’s a simple trick…
My Theory for Why Music Makes Us Feel Good
I have a theory for why music makes us feel good. Not a theory—a hypothesis.…
How Training a Skill Can Harm Your Execution of It
I’ve realized something interesting recently: the opposing forces of natural…
Thoughts on Podcast vs. Newsletter Content
I have a show called Unsupervised Learning that is released as both a podcast…
A Future Without Privacy
If you listen to the main voices on privacy concerns they’re all saying…
Amazon Go Gets Shopping Right by Reducing Friction
Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 56
This week’s topics: Gooligan, Korean Game Hacking Law, DoubleFlag Experian…
The Difference Between Median and Mean
There are many explanations out there of Median and Mean, but it feels like we…
Visa Pushes Gas Pump Chip Deadline to 2020: Maybe We Should Skip to Mobile Pay?
Visa this week delayed by three years a deadline for fuel station owners to install…
re:Invent 2016 Summary and Analysis
I’ve been casually following Amazon’s re:Invent Conference announcements…