Long ago, in 2004, I joined what was the most amazing community of photographers and people who liked photos: Flickr. In 2005, Yahoo bought…
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Announcement
Speaking at Altitude Sticky
I’m very excited that I am going to be spending a week in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, this September to talk about some topics…
Information Security
Boxtops for Data Mining?
The longstanding Boxtops for Education program in which everyone and their grandmother cuts the tops off of General Mills products and gives them to…
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Points and Counterpoints on Security Hiring Challenges
Over the last few weeks, I have had various discussions with colleagues across the information security field, at all stages in their careers. There…
Announcement
Secratic: A Personal Legend
Nearly 25 years ago, I received a present from a lifelong friend. The gift was, first and foremost, an attempt “to get me to…
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Security Awareness Success
I have finally had the validation that my casual yet persistent security awareness approach actually works and eventually gets into the consciousness (and subconscious)…
Announcement
New Year, New Talks
I am very honoured and excited to have had a number of talks accepted and been asked to join panels at four upcoming conferences…
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ALA Midwinter 2018 Denver Privacy Breakfast Recap
Thank you to all that attended my session in Denver last Saturday entitled “Shore to Shore: How Europe’s New Data Privacy Laws Help U.S.…
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How-to: Block Telemetry from Windows 10
My son has a BootCamp partition on his MacBook Pro to let him play one of his favourite games that had originally claimed to…
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On-Demand Video from ALA Annual 2017
Thanks to the social media team at ProQuest, my talk from ALA Annual 2017 entitled “Privacy is the Future: The Library’s Role as Educator,…