Author Archives
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Data Racism
When Alan Turing was thinking about computer programs there were very few programs. Today with billions of processors connected via the internet protocol we have more programs than people. Yep, just on this webpage there are numerous programs that were… Read More ›
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Picture Post -997
When I was a child and it became obvious that I could not read like my brothers. I am one of four, there was another middle brother that died when he was 16 and I was 18. He could… Read More ›
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Narrative aids digestion
In an information war pawns click bait. The titles are designed for clicks. Before you, bots provided the clicks, but we learned how to identify machines. Humans met the CAPTCHA. Once instrumented h.sapiens were taught by the very algorithms running… Read More ›
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Why we only buy Artificial Intelligence
I’m annoyed by marketing. I greatly dislike commercials. Dislike is not a harsh enough word for a business model that centers on advertising. Currently most of the web is brought to you by ads. These adverts [lies] influence humans with… Read More ›
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Starting the modern halting problem (or why we don’t grow white carrots)
Turing stated at the dawn of computing that a computer program was impossible write that could determine if another computer program and its inputs would stop or run forever. In security we think deeply about bugs and if the bugs… Read More ›
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WannaCry Tomato
The most popular question at the farmers market is about tomatoes. The interesting aspect of this is if you have the ability to grow your tomatoes in a garden or as many city dwellers you need to grow it in… Read More ›
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Kill Switch Kill
It happens on fridays. Every friday before the cyber security folks get to go home something comes up. This week it was a worm that propagates through a vulnerability that the NSA knew existed in the Microsoft ecosystem of operating… Read More ›
