Many think voice assistants are still in the toy category, but I’m convinced that they’ve recently become part of the underlying trust fabric for the Google, Apple, and Amazon brands. Apple is known for its product quality, and up until now Siri has not been considered part of that equation. I think that’s changing, though, and it’s changing…
Success in Life is Determined Most by Parental Culture, Not the Quality of Schools
I think one of the least know truths in liberal circles is that family culture determines educational and financial success far more than school quality. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we’ve been raised to believe that good schools have lots of resources—like new textbooks, better teachers, etc.—and that students in poor…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 115
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe below and get this episode’s podcast and newsletter. This week’s topics: GitHub DDoS, Celebrite Attacks, AI warnings, Palantir in New Orleans, Grub Backspace, 4G attacks, Space Corps, Amazon wins Defense Department deal, tech news, human news, discovery, notes, recommendation, aphorism, and more… Listen to this week’s Podcast Read…
When Companies Stop Caring About Data Loss, Risk Will Be Resilience-based and Focused on Business Disruption and Human Safety
In 2013, I looked briefly at how being hacked affects a company’s stock price. More people are looking at this now, and the evidence seems to show that there is often a major dip, but after 6 to 12 months it’s hard to even notice it happened. I’ve been worried for a long time that we’re getting Breach…
Safe Schools Are the New Luxury Item Because Now Only the Rich Have Stable and Present Families
We just saw another school shooting—this time in Parkland, Florida. The shooter was some kind of foster kid with serious hate in his heart, obviously. The foster parents were devastated, and evidently tried to give him love, but the damage seems to have been too great. He had a history of violence problems, a fascination with guns and…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 113
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe below and get this episode’s podcast and newsletter. This week’s topics: Parkland tampering, Avoid Huawei, Bongo S3, Facebook 2FA Spam, Android Cryptojacking, Spyware Hacking, Password Dating, Technology News, Human News, Trends, Ideas & Analysis, Data & Statistics, Discovery, Recommendations, Aphorism, and more… Listen to this week’s Podcast Read…
Expect Deep Learning to be Used By Schools to Predict Violence
Get ready for Palantir-style, AI-based violence prediction on school campuses. There are far too many situations where it happens and basically everyone knew that person would be the perpetrator. This should be used for social work as well, but the more people who get to use it the more people get the data. If the perpetrator is often…
Information Security Professionals Cannot Be Luddites
I'm starting to realize that many infosec people are luddites rather than technologists.Not a good look for us.We need to be the shepherds, not the crazy people belting out scripture at people on the street.— ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ (@DanielMiessler) February 18, 2018 I just posted this on Twitter after being frustrated again by how a lot of my fellow…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 112
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning. Some people prefer fewer stories in each show while others prefer more, so I’ve solved that problem by keeping the main show tightly curated and making all the extra stories and links available to members here. It’s basically an unabridged version of the newsletter for…
I Grow Tired of Technologists Who Don’t Understand the Internet of Things
Gizmodo just did an article about how silly smart homes are, how broken the tech is, and how it’s all annoying and creepy. This type of journalism seriously annoys me. It’s the equivalent of looking at an R&D lab at CalTech in 1973 and saying, “Wow, computers are stupid.” It’s quite sad to see a tech magazine throwing…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 111
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning. Some people prefer fewer stories in each show while others prefer more, so I’ve solved that problem by keeping the main show tightly curated and making all the extra stories and links available to members here. It’s basically an unabridged version of the newsletter for…
Why Benedict Evans is Wrong About Voice Interfaces
Worse, even if you do create hundreds or thousands of such queries (which Amazon is trying to do with Alexa Skills), you haven’t solved the problem, since there is no way for the user to know what they can ask, nor remember what skills Alexa does and does not have. The ideal number of skills for such a…
The Future of Attack and Defense is AI
I wrote recently about how AI’s biggest advantage in security—at least in the short term—will come from improving coverage rather than analysis quality. I was talking specifically about things like detection of threats within a SOC, or finding asteroids that might hit earth, or listening for dangerous conversations in millions of phone calls. Basically, any situation where there…
Third-party Questionnaires Are Security Theater
If you’ve been in InfoSec for a while you probably have significant experience with third-party security questionnaires. They’re basically the new firewall. Everyone is asking everyone else if they have one. I’ve been troubled for years by the whole charade, but I just recently put my finger on the reason. Third-party security questionnaires are the equivalent of asking…
The Ability to Fake Voice and Video is About to Change Everything
Most people think the way AI is going to significantly impact society is by taking all our jobs or creating robots that try to kill everyone. But while we focus on all the distant or unlikely impacts of artificial intelligence we’re about to get completely blindsided by a very real and practical one. The ability to imitate anyone’s…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 109
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning. Some people prefer fewer stories in each show while others prefer more, so I’ve solved that problem by keeping the main show tightly curated and making all the extra stories and links available to members here. It’s basically an unabridged version of the newsletter for…
Site Traffic Metrics for 2017
I finally took a look at my site traffic for 2017, and it was fairly respectable. ~ 3 million pageviews ~ 2 million users People hang out on the site for around 50 seconds (mostly for tutorials) I’m looking to get more traffic to my non-technical posts as well this year, but I think most people will still…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 108
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning. Some people prefer fewer stories in each show while others prefer more, so I’ve solved that problem by keeping the main show tightly curated and making all the extra stories and links available to members here. It’s basically an unabridged version of the newsletter for…
We’re Moving to the On-Demand Curated Experience (OCE) Economy
I’m not interested in technology for its own sake. I think it’s interesting precisely where (and because) it intersects with our daily lives. We’re at the beginning of many such intersections right now, but one that I’m particularly interested in is The On-Demand Experience Economy. Traditionally, we’ve done two things related to items and experiences: When we wanted…
5 Free Images Sites to Use Instead of Google Images
Google Images is still best if you want to see a picture of something. But for content creators there are a number of problems. It’s not super easy to tell when you’re allowed to use an image or not, and if you care about being courteous to artists and photographers, this matters. The site is infested with stock…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 107
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning. Some people prefer fewer stories in each show while others prefer more, so I’ve solved that problem by keeping the main show tightly curated and making all the extra stories and links available to members here. It’s basically an unabridged version of the newsletter for…
A Visual of the U.S. Generations
Finding information on the various U.S. generations (boomer, millennial, x, z, etc.) is non-trivial. I end up Googling 37 different sites—all of which disagree somewhat with each other—and then I eventually give up and pick a set of numbers for that particular piece—which I then forget the next time. Plus there aren’t really (m)any good visualizations of these…
What is Everyone In Consumer Tech Racing Towards?
I wrote The Real Internet of Things to answer the question of where all this consumer tech was eventually going to lead us. I think I mostly captured it there, but wanted to summarize here. I’m not sure where Microsoft is in this, and neither is anyone else. Right now we basically have Apple and Google fighting for…
A Simple Explanation of the Differences Between Meltdown and Spectre
Many people have pinged me asking for a dead-simple explanation of the differences (and similarities) between these two attacks. Here’s an extremely basic summary: Meltdown applies to Intel and Apple processors and takes advantage of a privilege escalation flaw allowing kernel memory access from user space, meaning any secret a computer is protecting (even in the kernel) is…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 106
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning. Some people prefer fewer stories in each show while others prefer more, so I’ve solved that problem by keeping the main show tightly curated and making all the extra stories and links available to members here. It’s basically an unabridged version of the newsletter for…
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