And what that means for the future of work As I was thinking about the webinar we have coming up on February 3, I started to think about what the “Metaverse” really means and it’s overlap with privacy and security. Join the Webinar I started to envision a future where our current situation, of working from home, is the…

I hate the idea that Facebook will lead the Metaverse (see my post). I am opposed because I think their privacy practices are terrible. I did not come to that conclusion lightly. I am the type of person that always gives the benefit of the doubt. But not in this…

Nov 21, 2021, from Substack THIS WEEK, a lot of my privacy friends were commenting on the Wired article “Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data.” The article portrays the various threats that Amazon suffers as a large data collector and scathingly portrays it as Amazon’s own…

When I was in high school, I played soccer. I had played soccer since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I loved soccer. But apparently soccer did not love me. I stubbornly pursued the varsity team, training to run sub 8 minute miles, practicing in my back yard…

This article first appeared in TagCyber in 2019. It has been since updated. I received my first security questionnaire in 2011, while I was working as the general counsel to a tech startup. Not being familiar with this document, I punted it to our VP of Engineering. After email exchanges…

Like everyone else, my internet channels were buzzing with the news that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp faced an extended outage earlier today in the Eastern Daylight Time zone. The outage caused some significant collateral damage, including slowing down Google’s popular 8.8.8.8 …

A richer understanding of what’s already understood. Reading “Time Based Security” by Winn Schwartau. Technology books don’t normally maintain long shelf lives. By the time a book meanders from an author’s fingers through editing and the print process, what was true at the start of the process is often stale news by the time the book is for sale. Take for instance Whitfield Diffie…

All founders have been taught to build the MVP. There is debate about what MVP stands for, but lean startup methodology means you try to get the basic version off the ground so that you test the market before spending too much money. …

Apologies for a shift away from the usual whimsical blog posts. The continuing revelations about the Israeli firm NSO’s Pegasus spyware infestations should surprise no one. The first news about NSO’s compromises came out years ago, and cheers to my old buddy Lorenzo for that piece. We’re usually bothered when…