All companies want smarter AI. Hospitals want models that can diagnose illness earlier. Banks want fraud detection that identifies suspicious patterns across institutions. Retailers want recommendations that truly seem personalized. But there’s a wall nobody wants to discuss: data cannot…
The majority of encryption is merely a lockbox -You lock your data, then send it on. When it needs to be used, it has to be unlocked, which is the dangerous bit – short lives make you vulnerable to attacks.…
Even after learning the differences between Office Home and Student vs. Office Pro Plus and finding out which one’s for you, there is still one thing you do regularly using your Office programs. You still name your Word doc with…
Most of us sit down at our web browsers as if (for most of us) they embody the extent of the internet. Load up Chrome, stick in a URL; that’s a job done. But the browser is merely one way…
Most privacy policies rest on an unspoken assumption: once your name is removed from the data set, your data is protected. Not so. Time and again, analysts have shown it is easy to re-identify anonymous data from surprisingly little outside…
I haven’t seen VPN guides that don’t assume only two options: paying $10/mo forever or already having a CS degree. Neither would apply to most people. Building your own VPN is easier than you might think. I have built a…
You‘ve unknowingly used apps that use them. Google‘s using one to gather statistics about how Chrome is used. Apple‘s working on one to improve autocorrect without actually reading anything you type. These aren‘t just corporate privacy spin. They‘re real systems…
You’re taking a 6-hour flight no Wi-Fi. When you play Apple Music, half of the songs in a playlist don’t play. This app only buffers and nothing else. That’s not a bug. That’s Apple Music being exactly the player that…
Suppose you work in a hospital. Suppose you work at a hospital. Data that has been collected over the years, which you may have, that you might be able to use to train a machine learning model that could detect…
When I was first making a serious attempt to look at women’s watches, here’s a revelation I had for you: The label “women’s” provides very little useful information when considering a watch. It doesn’t tell you how it will sit…
Most Kubernetes introductions show how to create a Secret item in just three lines of YAML. They never reveal that their secrets, by default, are base64-encoded strings in etcd, that aren’t encrypted, that aren’t rotated or audited. It’s no small…
CSR once consisted of a shiny annual report and a picture of them planting trees. Most of that is a distant memory now. In the past five years, businesses, ranging from SaaS-driven startups to Fortune 500 companies, have quietly shifted…