I’ve been deep-diving on Vim lately, as I tend to every couple of years.…
A Conversation with Ken Modeste
A while back I had the opportunity to chat with Ken Modeste, Director of Connected…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 192 (Member Edition)
Ring has already partnered with over 400 police departments. As you know, I’m…
Day-1 Skills That Cybersecurity Hiring Managers Are Looking For
I’ve written before about the paradox of hiring managers not being able…
The Definition of a Green Team
As I talk about in my article on Red, Blue, and Purple Teams, there are many advocating…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 191
Protestors in Hong Kong are physically attacking and destroying facial recognition…
Do Upper-middle Class Crime Victims Need to Check Their Privilege?
I was thinking the other day that complaining about being a crime victim in San…
Vim Config Update: 2019 Edition
I like to update my Vim configuration every 2-5 years just to make sure I am working…
The ŌURA Sleep Tracker Ring
I’ve been looking for a sleep-tracking solution for several years, but hadn’t…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 190 (Member Edition)
There are some seriously nasty Windows RDP bugs out there. If you have RDP facing…
How Weaponized Grit Can Lead to Unhappiness
I’m reading an extraordinary book right now, called Range: Why Generalists…
The Difference Between Data, Information, and Intelligence
The terms intelligence, information, and data are thrown around pretty loosely…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 188 (Member Edition)
Marcus Hutchins got off with time-served, and people have feelings. The range…
Humans Are Genebots
Somewhere in my 20’s or 30’s I became enamored with the idea of prep…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 187
Lots of people in the security community went silly over the FaceApp application…
Time Speeds Up When You’re Wasting It
Perhaps the title is a tiny bit strong, but I don’t think by much. I read…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 186 (Member Edition)
Parts of Manhattan had a power outage Saturday night, which happened to be the…
The Dangers of Abruptly Destroying Meaning Structures
I recently watched an older debate between Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson in which…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 185
The Telegraph has found strong links between Huawei employees and Chinese intelligence…
Why I Don’t Think Craig Wright is Satoshi
I many years ago I wrote a piece about why I didn’t think Craig was Satoshi,…
YouTube’s Ban of Hacking Videos Moves Us Closer to an Entertainment-only Public Sphere
Marcus Hutchins wrote a great essay recently about YouTube’s new ban on…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 184 (Member Edition)
I created a new tutorial on OWASP Amass, and just joined the team as a contributor…
Regulated Corporate Data Champions
We’re about to collide into the brick wall that is personal data privacy. There…
Unsupervised Learning No. 183
There’s a Linux vulnerability called SACK Panic (among other names) that…
The World is Collapsing Into Two Countries—Green and Red
I hope you get angry while you read this. Listen to the audio version here. There…