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…
May 25, 2020 Apple vs FBI, Part 2 The FBI is once again trash-talking Apple for not helping them in their investigation of a terrorist – this time, the alleged perpetrator of…
May 18, 2020 Beware the Evil Maid Intel created the Thunderbolt protocol to give us blazingly fast data transfer and other interesting features. Thunderbolt usually comes with the newer USB-C ports,…
May 11, 2020 COVID19 Security & Privacy Tips (Part 2) In part two of my interview with Malwarebyte’s David Ruiz, he tells us how to avoid the scams we discussed last week. And then…
May 4, 2020 COVID19 Security & Privacy Tips (Part 1) In times of great fear and anxiety, we need to be especially vigilant against snail oil salesmen. Never letting a good crisis go to…
April 27, 2020 Have You Been Pwned? Every time there’s a data breach at a company or service where you do business, there’s a chance that the bad guys will reverse…
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 13, 2020 Contact Tracing, Privately As health services and society in general struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, people are desperately seeking new and inventive ways to curb…
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…
