Might as well plan for a coffee break at around 2:15 tomorrow – at least folks in the Eastern Time zone. The rest of America, plan accordingly for a grand interruption. A nationwide test of something that will be now known as a “Presidential Alert” is planned to begin at [Keep reading]
Want your employees or consumers to finish something? Give them a decent head start. It sounds too simple to be true, but it is. People are more likely to complete a task if they are given a jump start at the beginning. This behavioral phenomenon is called “endowed progress.” We all [Keep reading]
Facebook has been hacked, and at least 50 million accounts have been impacted, the firm announced today in a blog post titled “Security Update.” As a result, 90 millions users were logged out of their accounts and forced to sign in again, the firm said. Criminals were able to “steal” [Keep reading]
What should computer science students — all college students — learn about the intersection of ethics and technology? @ethicaltechorg, founded by two Duke university students, (I’m an adviser) is crowd sourcing the curriculum for Tech Ethics 101. Thoughts here, or at the link: https://ethical-tech.org/request-for-collaboration/ Algorithms run our lives today. They [Keep reading]
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 [Keep reading]
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 [Keep reading]
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 [Keep reading]
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 [Keep reading]
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 [Keep reading]
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 [Keep reading]
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