Recommended

This is my own list of favorites I’ve written throughout the years. They’re not always my most popular pieces, but they’re what I consider my best and most recommended content.

Security

• Information Security Assessment TypesSeparating the different types of security assessment, e.g., PT, VA, Audit, White/Grey/Black-box, etc.

• Obscurity is a Valid Security Layer

• A Future Without Privacy

• It’s Not Bias When AI Tells Us Something True and Uncomfortable

• Authentication’s Last MileHow authentication will be performed in the future of IoT.

• It’s Wrong to Fearmonger on IoT Security

• Why Biometric Data Breaches Won’t Require You to Change Your Body

• How to Build an InfoSec CareerFrom training to lab to soft skills, everything you need to be successful in InfoSec.

• IoT Functionality and Personal Privacy Are Inversely Correlated

• When to Use Vulnerability Assessments, Pentesting, Red Team Assessments, and Bug Bounties

• The Difference Between Events, Alerts, and Incidents

• The Difference Between Risks, Threats, and Threat Actors

Technology

• The Hierarchy of Artificial IntelligenceThe difference between AI, ML, supervised/unsupervised learning, etc.

• Your Mind’s Software is More Important Than Its Hardware

• The Biggest Advantage in Machine Learning Will Come From Superior Coverage, Not Superior Analysis

• Moving Application Authentication to the Operating System

• With Facebook and Google You Literally Are the ProductHow to tell if you’re the product or the customer.

• Responsible Disclosure? How About Responsible Behavior?

• Personal Sensors Are the Next Breakthrough in Consumer Electronics

• The Real Internet of ThingsThe chapters of my book on how technology will integrate with human goals and desires.

• The InfoSec Community is Wrong About AI Being Hype

Humans

• The Bay Area is Separating Into Red and Green ZonesHow class separation is impacting the San Francisco Bay Area.

• The Future of Happiness as Digital Humans

• We Should Be Cautious When Harnessing EvolutionEvolution is really good at achieving goals, but what goals?

• How Russia is Helping America Destroy Itself

• Struggle as the Center of Happiness

• The Difference Between Violence and Terrorism

• The Difference Between Existentialism, Nihilism, and AbsurdismThree approaches to dealing with the lack of intrinsic meaning in the universe.

• The Bifurcation of America: The Forced Class Separation into Alphas and Betas

• Failure and How to Help People Avoid It

• How I Would Build My Life If I Could Engineer it From Scratch

• The Difference Between Violence and Terrorism

• So Happy I Could Die

• The Key to Happiness is Being Thankful