Opinion
-
Trends
What happens if a pandemic hits?
What happens if a Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic hits? It’s time to at least start asking that question. What will the…
Read More » -
Trends
DeFiance: billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and very little value
Over the last year or so, much-to-most of the cryptocurrency world has pivoted from the failure of “fat tokens” and…
Read More » -
Trends
The war against space hackers: how the JPL works to secure its missions from nation-state adversaries
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and operates billion-dollar spacecraft. That makes it a target. What the infosec world calls…
Read More » -
Trends
Everyone loves the coronapocalypse
The 2019-nCoV coronavirus is a global public health emergency of significant concern. It is also, simultaneously, a fount of misinformation,…
Read More » -
Trends
Technology is anthropology
The interesting thing about the technology business is that, most of the time, it’s not the technology that matters.…
Read More » -
Trends
Please stop marking yourself safe on Facebook
Let me begin by saying that Facebook’s Crisis Response pages do a lot of good. They are a locus for…
Read More » -
Here comes the downturn
It’s remarkable how fast the tenor of the times has changed. Only a few months ago we were in a…
Read More » -
All I want for Christmas: Folders for Google Docs
This is perhaps the saddest article I’ve written: I’m opening myself up to endless ridicule by admitting how deeply I…
Read More »