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Brian Krebs, once again, has made me angry. His report described how Experian, the credit reporting business, has perpetrated cybersecurity negligence. In this latest data breach, Experian has allowed identity thieves access to my financial data. And I’m still smarting from the calamity of the 2017 Equifax data breach. Filled with righteous indignation, I wrote… Read more

I was appalled to see George Floyd brutally killed, and I believe that officers committing such acts should be held accountable. However, the problems appear to be more than just a “few bad apples” in law enforcement. So I looked for recommendations for an ambitious and comprehensive program for improving public safety for all citizens… Read more

The high costs of IT training and tech support have encouraged technology firms to employ redesigned user interfaces (UI) to replace documentation and training.  By making their products intuitively obvious to use, vendors have stopped distributing user manuals and documentation. It would appear that the vendors of commodity software believe that training is the result… Read more

There is a lot of talk about how foreign actors are attacking our electoral process. Election authorities (and other local governmental bodies) can thwart many of those threats by getting a dot.gov domain. Getting a dot.gov domain name is a simple and relatively inexpensive measure to discourage such mischief. Why get a dot.Gov domain? Challenges Read more

Our nation’s IT applications and infrastructure are quite vulnerable; public and private organizations are reluctant to harden these assets sufficiently to provide assurance against devastating counter attacks. An adversary may retaliate at a weak point, perhaps with little concern for precise attribution. Thus offensive operations should be conducted from an “all-of-government” perspective, ensuring that the… Read more

It’s time to use the lessons the WordPress class I took a couple of years ago. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton Read more