Those of us who care about privacy issues spend a lot of time conjuring up stories about potential future disasters in an effort to focus attention on today’s dry policy decisions. If we don’t act now, one day, ordering ice cream will raise your health insurance rates; listening to this […]
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR LEARN MORE Sometimes, you have to try new things. So, here goes. I’m hosting a conference. Hopefully, a different kind of security conference. In Washington D.C., on Oct. 3. Please consider going, or share this invitation with someone who might be interested. Here’s the big […]
How did the anonymous op-ed writer communicate with The New York Times, and how is the Times working to keep the identity of that person a secret? I posed this question to computer security friends recently as an academic exercise, but it’s not academic now. President Trump appeared on Friday […]
I’m not really one for anniversary stories — they tend to be pretty artificial news hooks. But one year after what many think is the most significant hack of U.S. consumer data in history, it’s certainly worth taking stock of what’s happened since. For starters, Equifax has increased the amount […]
Mark Zuckerberg never set out to be the world’s editor in chief, but here we are. And sorry Mark, you are a terrible front page editor. Hearings in Congress today dug into the weeds of why Americans feel like social media is letting them down — it was a ready-made […]
The folks at Grow recently asked me to examine the potential for a cashless society recently. With each new cash-like app and each store that declines cash, a cashless world seems closer. But not so fast. My conclusion: Given that billions of notes are still in circulation – and cherished […]
It was boiling hot at the Capitol building on Friday, where John McCain lies in state. Well before the event was open to the public, citizens lined up. It was refreshing and inspiring to see the mix of people who were there. A couple behind me flew up from Florida […]
It’s Labor Day, and America is facing a labor crisis that no one is talking about. It’s simple: There isn’t much labor to do; Many of the jobs people do have are bullshit jobs; Because of this, the most common way to get ahead in America right now is to […]
The federal official in charge of handling complaints against the student loan industry resigned in fury on Monday, leveling a series of accusations against his agency — including suppression of a report showing lenders were ripping off college students with “legally dubious account fees.” The step was not a surprise. Seth […]
How is the economy doing? Sounds like a simple question; it’s not. Many of the proxies we tend to use as a gauge — say, the Dow Jones industrial average, or GDP, or the top-line unemployment rate or the national debt — are nearly meaningless, or even misleading. At a […]
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