1.30.2020

Everybody's talking, these days…

…about bits and pieces of this subject, the many tips of this massive iceberg, about cell phone tracking and facial recognition and crimestopping AI algorithms and targeted advertising and "fake news," but only a very few approach the subject as fully and coherently as technology guru Bruce Schneier does in this brief essay.

Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate - Schneier on Security

You're unlikely to hear anything about this…

…from any of the U.S. Presidential candidates from either party, but it's a subject that will have profound short- and long-term influence on U.S. technological security, not to mention the very survival of the open internet. 

The US Is Losing Its Fight Against Huawei | WIRED

1.26.2020

How contagious is reality?

The Flu Poses a Far Greater Threat to Americans Than the Coronavirus From China