July 27, 2020 The Great Twitter Hack Last week, Twitter was massively hacked – apparently just to launch a Bitcoin scam (though that story is still developing). Famous people’s accounts were…
June 1, 2020 Fiber For Our Future (part 1) The COVID-19 era has exposed several weaknesses in American infrastructure and exacerbated the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Perhaps nowhere is this…
April 20, 2020 Phish Spotting 101 The bad guys are having a field day with all the coronavirus hubbub, using our fears and anxieties to trick us into clicking bad…
April 6, 2020 Secure & Private Social Distancing During our global COVID-19 self-quarantining, video conferencing usage has exploded. I’ve tried to find hard statistics, but they’re rising so fast that anything I…
March 30, 2020 Privacy by Design Wouldn’t it be nice if privacy wasn’t an afterthought? What if user privacy was built in from the get go? What if the entire…
September 16, 2019 Google’s Not-So-Private Sandbox No doubt sensing the impending US privacy regulations, Google has released a plan to “enhance” user privacy… by finding different ways to track you….
July 1, 2019 Set Warp Factor 1.1.1.1 Why do most VPN apps suck so badly? How do you know which VPN service providers you can trust with your privacy? How is…
March 31, 2019 Fix It Already! How often have you run across something so obviously bad or behind the times that you just want to scream: Hey, fix this already!…
March 24, 2019 Preparing for Your Digital Afterlife What happens to your digital life when you die? The answer is only slightly less philosophical than what happens to your soul. The laws,…
March 3, 2019 Account Defense in Depth The Mayor of Tampa, Florida, had this Twitter account hacked due to “the usual weaknesses, including poor passwords.” The hackers used the account to…
