Brick O'Lore

Scarily true...

The House That Spied on Me : "Thanks to the Internet of Things, I could live in my very own tech-mediated Downton Abbey. That’s the ap...

I know there is a "in Soviet Russia" joke in here, but I hate to hear that the Vizio TVs are tracking me : "Vizio's tec...

Only posting because I wanted to call it Security Theater Theater .

And Kickstarter has killed the anonabox Tor router .

As is often the case, life seems to work in themes... since I've talking about the CWNP, I see a couple of articles about routers. The...

Somethings you can't control - some you can.

I'm guessing many of you have seen the proposal to allow encryption on the ham bands under certain circumstances. They ( Bruce , Bob , H...

If it is portable for you, it is portable for the bad guys , too.

I agree they are getting more aggressive - aggressive with the people they are supposed to protect. I've had run-ins with the TSA bef...

StudioXNYC Foursquare rep says, "Privacy is a modern invention," as if that ends the debate on ethics. Someone in audience y...

There isn't a ton of technical details to be had in the presentation, but it seems too easy for all of these devices to be hacked/disrup...

Some food for thought for Gmail users... arrington Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox | Epicenter ...

Scary stuff. Cory Doctorow: Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing.   He makes the argument that SOPA and the like ...

My worst nightmare... government ninja librarians . I would have said zombies, but they have jumped the shark.

Given my recent experience , I think this picture is worth a millions words. Picture by Robb Allen (Sharp as a Marble) .

If you've read anything about the changes to Facebook, you know that they are trying to access data from every facet of your life. Mark ...

As I mentioned earlier, I got selected by the TSA for additional screening and one of their super sophisticated terrorist detection mechani...

After examining my boarding pass and drivers license, the TSA agent asked me what my name was. I'm thinking she should know after lookin...