Data Scientists and Their Secret Stew
People misuse the word “literally” all the time, and that’s literally one of my biggest pet peeves. But I could make an exception when it comes to describing what we’re doing with data. We’re literally…
Tag Archives: privacy
Passwords End With You
Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga has filed for protection from creditors in the wake of its founder’s death. Gerald Cotten died while traveling in India in December, taking the only known password to the firm’s cold…
Apple’s FaceTime Bug a Severe and Avoidable Risk to Privacy
A 14-year-old FortNite player discovered and reported a major flaw in one of Apple’s most ballyhooed new features, Group FaceTime. Ironically, it took almost a fortnight for the tech behemoth to respond. Apple finally disabled…
It’s time for a new ID
I signed up for Lifelock today. Spending another $40 a month to cover my wife and me is not something I relish doing. But I feel it would be irresponsible not to have proactive credit…
Online Privacy: Same Unicorn, But More Menacing
President Trump signed the congressional repeal of online privacy rules that had been put forth by the Federal Communications Commission in the final days of the Obama Administration. In the short term, that amounts practically…
The First Christmas As a Social Media Event
No doubt, many of you have already seen this video. After all, it is four years old, and it has over 12 million views on YouTube. I saw it for the very first time right…
The Wrong Side of a Very Slippery Slope
Orwell keeps getting more and more brilliant. A friend of mine asked for some advice for escaping what he referred to as “Google’s all-seeing eye.” He explained that he installed Firefox and added an extension…
Identities for Sale
An underground cyber criminal ring has stolen the personal records of over 4 million Americans and has been selling them to other cyber criminals. The group, called SSNDOB for “social security number / date of…
The Prism Problem
I gave a couple of presentations over the past two days about the NSA’s surveillance program and the disclosures made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. You can download the Powerpoint and watch yesterday’s presentation. In…
Alienating Cyberspace
The defense the US Government has used to defend and justify its recently disclosed surveillance activities is that such efforts focus solely on identifying those outside the United States who seek to harm the country.…