Today, there are more ways to keep our data safe and private than ever before. From password managers, to multi-factor authentication, to encryption everywhere, to bio-metrics authentication, to VPNs, to encrypted DNS. And yet, as the ways to keep your data safe increase or become more easily accessible, so do the ways in which we more freely give that very data away. Though voice assistants are nothing new, their popularity has grown exponentially in the past couple of years. It makes sense. As the world becomes ever more...

#trumpthehack #trump #election2020 Back in April, I wrote how Trump was a Hacker in the true sense of the word. I wrote that Trump had found very effective bugs in our media ecosystem that allowed him to bypass the very safeguards that were created to people like him off the medium. Hacker Trump didn't stop there, he continued to hack his way through our country's checks-and-balances. He did this through various tools and methods his predecessors had used in the past, though not all at once, and used...

The word hacker used to have a negative connotation. If you were a hacker, you were a "hack", a wannabe. Someone that copied others and could not do it on their own. But in the era of Facebook, technology and silicon valley, being a hacker has taken on a more prestigious definition. Nowadays you find ways to "hack" your life. You look for food-prepping "hacks". "Hacks" are everywhere. Being a hacker is a good thing. I am not a proponent of its positivity or negativity, only in its...