Category: Technology
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Why Data From So Many Breaches Never Sees the Light of Day
Months ago I was chatting with a colleague about a recent data leak (a.k.a. Data breach), as we tend to do in this industry. Those terms are defined by Microsoft as “an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive, confidential, or personal information from an organization’s systems or networks to an external party“. Any time I see an…
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An AI agent destroyed … hey wait a minute!
Yesterday many people ran across a headline that was shocking, and repetitive. This time it read “‘Gone in 9 seconds’: Claude-powered AI agent deletes startup’s entire database“. For myself, the first thing I had to do was check the date of the article because I swore I had just read about this recently. Yep, April…
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We Are Legion (We Are Bobservations); Answering a “Simple” Question
In late February, a friend linked an article about a science-fiction book and asked if I had read it. I told her that I hadn’t but after reading an abstract it sounded good. She asked if I would be her designated reader due to her workload, and report back. I said sure! She was particularly…
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Windows 10 Fails
[This was originally started on 2021-03-07, adding notes from months before that. Given the time that has passed, I will not finish this but wanted to post my notes, as is.] windows is X years old, and despite the bloating and bugs, they still haven’t figured out some pretty basic UI/UX things. these are the…
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Netflix: Why People Are Leaving You… (The Unspoken Reason?)
I can be long-winded in my blogs, I know, and there is a lot to unpack here. I’ll try to keep it brief. Famous last words =) Any Netflix engineers reading, it will be worth your time even if you skim fast. In the last month there has been global news coverage about Netflix losing…
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Perlroth, Miller, and the First Remote iPhone Vuln
In what is sure to be my last blog (?!) born out of reading “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends” by Nicole Perlroth, this article is basically a quick dive into a single paragraph that contains one sentence with an alleged fact pertaining to vulnerability history. As a self-described Vulnerability Historian, this…
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My Photography is Popular
According to Ken Rockwell, via the first result of a Google search, the definition of a professional photographer is someone: .. who earns 100% of his income from photography. This is the definition required for entrance into the secret Nikon and Canon factory support organizations. People who earn less than 50% of their income from…
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Search Speak for Automaton
Alternate titles for this blog could be “Doodle Transition for Machina” perhaps! For at least a decade I have thought about just such an application and today I have Google Translate for Android. Load, aim, and it will process the text and translate on screen for you. Given the state of technology you would think…
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20 Seconds to Comply; 17+ Years to Get It Wrong. From “Roboguard” to “Steve”!
Recently, news broke of a robot security guard lovingly nicknamed “Steve” who drowned in a fountain in the lobby of the building he was sworn to protect. The various Tweets and news articles jumped all over it, with articles anthropomorphizing Steve and headlines such as “Security guard robot ends it all by throwing itself into…
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It’s 2016, why is rotating a video such a pain?
How many times have you quickly shot a video on your phone and not rotated it for landscape? It happens too often and we see these videos all over social media. I sometimes forget to do it as well, or portrait is more in line with what I am shooting. So, I want to quickly…