Government Surveillance – A Scary Story for Adults
Since this summer, a number of disturbing news reports have come out that highlight the amount of ongoing surveillance of the Internet by the National Security Agency. Mainly due to leaks to leaks from former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, these have outlined a huge...
WordCamp ABQ 2013 Slides Available
I'm excited to be giving a talk at WordCamp Albuquerque 2013! It's on Saturday Sep 14 at 1pm, called "DNS and WordPress Site Migration". It will cover some of the ins-and-outs of DNS that make it tricky to move a web site or change a site's name. I'll also talk about...
WordCamp 2013
WordCamp is an informal, community-organized event that is put together by WordPress users of all levels. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. More info. Panels at WC 2013: (Saturday 9am-5pm) Clean...
Preserving Privacy in a Watched World
In the wake of ongoing revelations of online government surveillance, what many observers have suspected is now shown to be true. As Google CEO Eric Schmidt once famously said: there is no anonymity in the future of the Web. As the head of one of the companies chiefly...
What The Government Knows
Unless you've been sleeping under a rock lately, you know that recent revelations of the vast extent of government surveillance of the Internet and users have lit up a world wide firestorm. The brouhaha will doubtless continue, and further revelations are bound to...
War in Cyberspace Will Be A Real Mess
When hackers boast of their exploits, they often claim that they had only the good of the victim at heart – no matter what kind of mischief they've been up to. They usually innocently say that they are exposing how they accomplished whatever remarkable invasion or...