How strange it is that we live this way Unable to know what next we’ll say…
The Most Exciting Features from the WWDC 2018 Keynote
This year’s WWDC Keynote was all about software, and it had updates for…
How to Have Amazon Polly’s AI Voice Read Your Newsletter as a Podcast
I’ve just published my first podcast episode (Episode 128) using Amazon…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 128
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe…
Automated Situational Interpretation and Prediction (ASIP)
Any time you see us using cameras to feed a Machine Learning algorithm, I think…
I’m Not (Overly) Concerned About Smart Speaker Security, And You Shouldn’t Be Either
I have a 1,001 friends in InfoSec who I hear things like this from on a regular…
Economic Inequality is the Norm, Not the Exception
I read and think a lot about technology, automation and how it will impact humanity.…
The Single Reason Harry Potter is Better Than the Marvel MCU
I’ve been having a heated discussion with a friend about why I can only take…
Security Report Analysis: 2018 DBIR Report
In this Security Report Analysis (SRA) series I look at various security reports…
The Waking Up Podcast: Sam Harris vs. Sean Carroll on Free Will
Sam Harris recently had Sean Carroll on his Waking Up podcast, and to my delight…
John Gruber Wrong About the Duplex Demo
John Gruber of Daring Fireball took a big shot at Google Duplex recently. He basically…
The Future of Content Destroys the Middleman
I think the content creation ecosystem—especially around blogging—will…
America is Rotting
We in the West are in the beginning—or perhaps the middle of—a catastrophic…
Thoughts on Podcast vs. Newsletter Content
I’m thinking of stopping my regular podcast and only doing my weekly update…
If You’re Not Doing Continuous Asset Management You’re Not Doing Security
The more a company can tell me about their assets the better their security is,…
Announcing the Launch of HELIOS
For a number of years I’ve been waiting to launch a project of mine called…
Facebook’s Failure is a Reflection of American Ignorance
Facebook didn’t fail anyone. We failed ourselves. Sure, they could have…
My Postmortem Summary of The Sam Harris & Ezra Klein Podcast
If you’re a fan of Sam Harris or Ezra Klein you know that they’ve…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 120
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe…
Online Education May Be Poised to Replace Dying Universities
Higher education is in the middle of an elaborate suicide ritual. It’s implements…
The Definition of Security is “Without Worry”
A lot of people in Information Security think security means “stopping bad…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 119
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe…
Why I Switched from Patreon to Memberful
Like many people I’ve been soured on ads and sponsors for my podcast and…
DevOps as the Art and Science of Deliberate Practice
The best definition I’ve ever heard for DevOps is the ability to practice…
Analysis of the 2018 F5 Threat Intel Report
F5 just released a threat intel report that covered 433 breach cases spanning…
Learn the Difference Between Real and Fake Machine Learning
There are few technologies as misunderstood right now as Machine Learning. Some…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 116
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe…
The Two Kinds of Privacy Loss
I like to think about our impending loss of privacy as two separate issues. The…
How to Download the Data Facebook Has on You
People are becoming increasingly worried about the data that Facebook and other…
Why Software Remains Insecure
There are myriad theories as to why software remains insecure after we’ve…
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…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 115
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe…
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…
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…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 113
This week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning is now available. Subscribe…
Expect Deep Learning to be Used By Schools to Predict Violence
Get ready for Palantir-style, AI-based violence prediction on school campuses.…
Information Security Professionals Cannot Be Luddites
I'm starting to realize that many infosec people are luddites rather than…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 112
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised…
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…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 111
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised…
Why Benedict Evans is Wrong About Voice Interfaces
Worse, even if you do create hundreds or thousands of such queries (which Amazon…
The Future of Attack and Defense is AI
I wrote recently about how AI’s biggest advantage in security—at least…
Third-party Questionnaires Are Security Theater
If you’ve been in InfoSec for a while you probably have significant experience…
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…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 109
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised…
Site Traffic Metrics for 2017
I finally took a look at my site traffic for 2017, and it was fairly respectable.…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 108
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised…
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…
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…
Unsupervised Learning: No. 107
This post contains the supplemental content for this week’s episode of Unsupervised…