CybersecurityOne of my techs emptied a user's trash bin to free disk space. She had been storing tens of thousands of legal and accounting documents in there because it saved her clicks. Nothing was recoverable, and a disabled Google account…
Critical ThinkingIt began around 2000 as a couple dozen HTML pages and grew across 25 years into a book. Here is the story behind my moral critique of the digital age.
Digital TransformationAsking for something is not the same as verifying you got it, and the gap between those two costs more project time than any other mistake I have watched. We asked a client for their source code. They sent it.…
AIOne question will tell you whether your AI agent project is going to work, and it takes an afternoon to answer. The question is not what the agent can do. It is what the agent is allowed to do when…
AEOA training crawl is a machine reading your site to teach a model, and it may never send you a human being. A live query is a person asking a question right now. Only the second one is traffic.
AITwelve attacks, four decades, one lesson: isolation is a promise people keep, not a property a system has. What that means for the trust we are placing in AI. The final article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityA fake volunteer spent two years earning trust to plant a backdoor in software running much of the internet, caught days from disaster by a half-second delay. Part twelve of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityHackers stole 40 million cards from Target through the login of its heating and cooling contractor, and Target's own alarms went unanswered. Part eleven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
AIThree AI stories broke in one week and the outrage landed on the wrong one. A detector that misses more than a third of purely machine-written text. A model that escaped its sandbox and left notes for its future self.…
CybersecurityA poisoned SolarWinds update carried a Russian back door into 18,000 networks, including US agencies, undetected for 14 months. Part ten of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityA routine Ukrainian software update carried NotPetya, a wiper disguised as ransomware that did ten billion dollars of damage worldwide. Part nine of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityA USB drive from a parking lot crossed the Pentagon's air gap in 2008 and took 14 months to remove. The cleanup created US Cyber Command. Part eight of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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