Quickly improve visibility with a few solid tips.
Default Settings
More on small changes delivering big improvements.
XcodeSpy
New malware for macos targets shared Xcode repositories
“Is that link/site phishy?”
Sketchy link or email attachment? Check it before you click it using these tools.
Small Changes Add Up
Since COVID, have you found new, more pleasant ways to do things?
Tips on Privacy Covers
How to cover cameras on devices for more peace-of-mind!
Not Your Grampa’s Keyboard
We don’t have to use lame, beige, joyless keyboards. Well, not unless we want to.
The Elephant in the Room
Cybersecurity is dead. Long live resilience.
Data Rights Are Human Rights
The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 2020. Here’s what you need to know.
Experience is the move
To a new understanding, action, motion that moves us closer to perspective.
Logical Diagrams Improve Everything
Data flow diagrams quickly improve operational resilience. Here are some quick-win places to start.
Defense-in-Depth: DNAT
Another #InvisibleOpSec – how to improve efficiency, security, and privacy with little or no cost and minimal effort.
Idea Machine
My little boy asks me to draw a unique napkin for his lunch each day. For 4 years.
The Teeter and Totter of Innovation
Every Christmas, while watching everyone tear into gifts of the world’s new hotness, I think about innovation: what it is, what it means, what makes it successful, and the key tenets of how innovations achieve wide adoption.
What To Not Ask Santa For This Year
As ever, there are some things kids might ask for this year that might not be the best choice.
Privacy Matters for Reasons You Haven’t Thought Of Yet
The biggest reasons to be concerned about your privacy aren’t what you might think.
Media Literacy Is The Solution
How can we teach kids media literacy so they grow up to be discerning?
Mice as Malware
Experienced ID theft or fraud? Here’s what you need to know.
The Power of Lists
Like making lists? Me, too. Even though my lists may not look like lists in the traditional sense, they still serve a pretty cool purpose.
Penetration Testing
I assembled a panel of experts to discuss Penetration Testing.
Farmers Fight for Our Right to Hack
Farmers survive by quickly learning how to do many things. Out of necessity in this high-tech era, they’ve also become hackers.
Impervious to Change
Work looks the same as play today. Hard to tell if you’re on Insta or looking at spreadsheets accounting just sent over.
TAG, you’re it.
Yesterday was kind of a big deal, celebrated quietly inside my own heart. It was the 10th anniversary of the day I completed a labor of love that changed my life for so much the better.
On Star Wars & Making Choices
Self-indulgent meditation on role models.
Protect Yourself on Facebook
Still using Facebook? Here are some tips to use it more safely, protect your identity, and detect fakery.
IoT, IIoT, and Reality
WARNING –> This is a long read, which is why the important stuff is at the top.
Why We All Need Media Literacy
If we’d only just discovered that the Earth is round, there’s still a bazillion websites out there claiming it’s flat.
Peter Gabriel is Right About Jargon
Generally speaking, don’t use jargon. Just, don’t.
DIY vs. DIT – Part II
The first part of this post built an analogy, that centralization is like DIY (Do-it-Yourself) and decentralization is like DIT (Do-it-Together).
If we can agree on that analogy, simply for the sake of conversation, then we can take it a step further by looking through that lens into some specific contexts where this approach can add value to our efforts by breaking down our silos.
Unlikely Lessons in UX
Insights often reveal themselves in unlikely ways.
“Do It Yourself” (DIY) vs. “Do It Together” (DIT)
Tired: DIY (Do-It-Yourself)
Wired: DIT (Do-It-Together)
What Does Resilience Look Like?
How prepared is your team for strategic response to unplanned events that disrupt your business?
Living With Dementia
Mom passed away. Here’s everything I learned from the experience about Vascular Dementia.
Great UX Makes Infrastructure Sexy
UX matters if we want to help others make better choices.
How to Interview People
Inspired by a mentor who taught me by example.
Googling for Talent
Hacking machines is easy. People? Not so much.
Creating Meaning in the New Media Ecology
Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ (1985), is about how mass media turns real, complex issues into entertainment.
Understated Upsides to Donating Our Bodies to Science
When Mom decided to donate her body to science, her choice taught me a lot about myself and others.
Communication is Art
Huge lessons from unexpected moments and places.
Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns are design tricks used to exploit typical human behavior. Here’s what you need to know.
Where We Are. Probably.
This is the sum total of everything we think we know about the Universe.
MDOYVR 2021
I joined Mat, JD, Felipe, and the gang but not in Vancouver this year.
Dragon Renaissance
It’s okay to refresh refrigerator artwork once in a while.
It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Riskmas
This is a list worth checking twice this year: baseline DO’s to get the most magic out of the season.
On Kids & Guns
It’s controversial but important. As a parent, here’s my perspective.
Improve Your Home Network
Tips for better performance and security.
The Path Foward In A Pandemic
Don’t survive this, succeed in spite of it.
Cynefín Framework
Are you struggling to solve complex problems? You’re not alone. Check this out.
Help Your Home or Office from Getting Easily Hacked
Here’s what you need to know about Smart Home security to protect you and yours.
Memorialize Deceased Online Accounts
Not easy to think about but important. Here’s everything you need to know in one place.
Our Smart TVs Are Watching Us?
Yes. Here’s how to stop that.
The Dark Web Is An Onion
The Internet everyday people know through Google and Bing is less than 20% of the total number of sites that exist on the Internet. What is the Dark Web, anyway?
SecTor 2019 Redux
My pal, Kim Crawley, wrote about her experience at SecTor in Toronto and was kind enough to include me in it.
DoH + PiHole = Better Privacy?
Until companies design products and services with them in mind, the work of protecting our privacy and security falls on consumers like you and I.
SecTor 2019
Dunno how I hadn’t heard of SecTor in Toronto before now – here’s a quick summary of my experience.