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Somewhere on the planet earth, it’s spring.

by | Apr 14, 2018 | Slice of Life

Remember when our grandparents talked about how they lived through the big one back in (pick your year)? Well, now, we have cell phone video and we can record history-in-the-making. Here are four videos and some still pictures from Eagan, Minnesota, USA, of the great...

A Rinky-dink GOP phishing campaign

by | Dec 18, 2017 | Slice of Life

An email came in the other day from the GOP, the United States Republican party.  The party I used to respect.  It claimed to be a one question survey.  The question was, “The president’s job performance has been…”  My choices were great, good,...

The Day I Discovered I’m not Worthless

by | Nov 8, 2017 | Memoir

It was the summer between fourth and fifth grade, in Phoenix, Arizona. By the time fourth grade ended, I was on my tenth school, including kindergarten. Four in the fourth grade alone. Fifth grade would be the first time I started a new school year in the same school...

Rod Rosenstein’s responsible encryption fantasy

by | Oct 25, 2017 | Cybersecurity

The politicians are at it again. This time, US Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, wants tech companies to come up with a concept he calls, “responsible encryption.” I wrote a blog post about government putting its fingers in encryption in early 2016,...

Key Reinstallation Attack (KRACK)

by | Oct 19, 2017 | Cybersecurity

In Mid October, 2017, Mathy Vanhoef set up a website to demonstrate an attack he discovered and named KRACK Attack that rocked the WiFi world.  For a security researcher, this was the mother-load.  He discovered a flaw in the WPA2 protocol that...