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 >