By January 23 the White House should have put this country on a war footing - setting up manufacturing of PPEs, checking the functionality of its existing respirators and ramping up production of new ones, and deploying serious resources to develop high throughput testing to support broad surveillance of the disease.

Using Apple’s approved system extensions API, we can see when a process was created, how it was created, which sequence of programs it executed, and when the program exited. We also know when the program was created, when it ended up on this Mac, where it lives on this Mac, and which developer signed this code.

The United States, and much of the world, is embarking on a large-scale, unplanned experiment: shutting down and then rebooting the economy.

VentureBeat makes a good case for a “Series 0” release of Apple’s augmented reality glasses. From my experience writing and using AR software, I think VB is right.

The 1990s was the Golden Age of of intrusion detection. A quarter century later, network analysis, by both automated tools and human analysts, still dominates the detection of compromised systems within many enterprises. But technology and business changes over the years have made this much harder.

Some of most well-known cybersecurity companies have recently lost or may be losing their independence, and it is getting hard to point to cybersecurity companies with sustained growing profits.

Attending a Corelight webinar required the, presumably, temporary running of GoToMeeting. Apparently GoToMeeting isn’t so temporary, and it left a bunch of programs largely hidden away and a beacon to call home every 61 minutes.

The United States Air Force and Army are adding information warfare as a core component in their missions, but there are no clear lines between foreign government information operations against the US and domestic US politics because foreign governments and US politicians are working together in their disinformation campaigns.

A walk around the neighborhood on a cloudy day.

Here are three TED Talks that illuminate today’s large-scale psychological warfare. The first talk is about how businesses created the perfect weapons for mass psychological warfare, the “persuasion platforms”. The next two talks are about how Russia has been using these persuasion platforms in the US, Great Britain, and increasingly in other parts of the world.

Using Apple’s ARKit to put a Mars crater on my kitchen table. This is my weekend project of visualizing digital terrain data. It’s nice to take a break from cyber security.

There is a famous parable called the Scorpion and the Fox. Facebook is clearly a scorpion. Central to their business is the collection of as much information as possible about people, so Facebook can help their customers optimally manipulate you. Facebook just can’t help itself but behave the way it does.

Corporate officers of Yahoo! have been successfully sued over their actions that led to multiple breaches at Yahoo! The officers (actually their insurance company) will pay $29 million.

I woke up this morning, the first day of my winter holiday, thinking, while still in that quasi-dream-wake state, about the origins of life. This is what you get when going to sleep listening to biology books.

When I was about 11 years old I learned two lessons: Sea-Monkeys were not really aquatic primates and marketing departments lie. The second was a good lesson to learn.

In 1976 I learned what a googol was through a clever Richie Rich mystery. 21 years later the founders of a search engine botched the spelling of the word when they registered their new domain name, but I think they might approve of the villain’s words on the comic’s cover - NOTHING CAN STOP THE '“GOOGOL” NOW!