On Sociopaths and Progress

AI is just someone else's intelligence

Elon Musk Grossly Misunderstands Free Speech

Edward Snowden in Hindsight

Retro Scams: Authenticating Early Nintendo Systems and Games

On NCCIC/FBI Joint Report JAR-16-20296

Can We Put the 16GB “Pro” Myth to Rest?

On The State of Open Source

WhatsApp Forensic Artifacts: Chats Aren’t Being Deleted

"Due to the technical ineptitude of its authors...the end result is a very dangerous [bill] that will...affect everything from the iPhone you hold in your pocket to how data is transmitted over the Internet, allowing the government to effectively break all electronic commerce and Internet security"

My Take on FBI's “Alternative” Method

Apple v FBI: "Should the government have carte blanche rights to force anyone to work for them? Should the privacy of people’s entire past be subject to a warrant?...The questions that the [DOJ] is posing, at the very core of the matter, are questions of whether or not we should be a free people."

Forensic software requirements and why the FBI is asking Apple for too much

Waze: Google’s New Spying Tool

Preliminary Findings on Whisper

A Warning to the Tech Community on Abusive Journalists

An Example of Forensic Science at Its Worst: US v. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair

Apple Confirms “Back Doors”; Downplays Their Severity

Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices

How to randomize your MAC address on OS X