July 26, 2021 Guard Your Digital Rolodex Your phone number is arguably as strong a personal identifier as your social security number, passport number or email address. These are things we…
June 14, 2021 Payment App Privacy Sucks Payment apps are fairly secure & very convenient, but NOT private. And Venmo is the worst. Venmo is the only payment app that is…
June 7, 2021 Have I Been FLoCed? (Part 2) Is it possible for you to view your FLoC ID right now? And if so, can you decode this ID to understand what Google…
May 31, 2021 Have I Been FLoCed? (Part 1) The public has voted and the results are in: people do not want to be tracked. In response, like pop-up ads before them, third…
May 17, 2021 Protecting Intellectual Freedom (Part 2) What is Tor, exactly? How and why would I use it? And what the heck is a Tor node? In part 2 of my…
May 10, 2021 Protecting Intellectual Freedom (Part 1) Want to read a book without your reading history being tracked? Do you need to surf the web with complete anonymity? If so, then…
May 3, 2021 App Tracking Transparency After what seemed like forever, Apple has finally released its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature which requires apps to get your permission to track…
March 29, 2021 Stop Using SMS for 2FA Passwords suck and humans aren’t good at using them. Password managers can help a lot, but to truly improve your account security these days,…
March 22, 2021 Computers Interviewing Humans (Part 2) Given that we’re using computer algorithms to evaluate humans, can these systems be gamed or fooled? And is it possible that computers are less…
March 15, 2021 Computers Interviewing Humans (Part 1) Convincing a human to hire you is hard enough. Can you imagine trying to convince a computer? Artificial intelligence is now being used to…
