I’ve promised for a while, years really, to write-up the etymology of the word “hacker”. This always is a popular topic among the information security crowd. Although I regularly talk about it at conferences and put it in my presentations, the written form has yet to materialize. Suddenly I instead feel compelled to write about … Continue reading Origins of “Information Security”
Firing like a cruise missile into civilian infrastructure, one particlarly dangerous road robot continues to kill and injure people without warning. Day after day, as if Elon Musk is at war with America, the news is full of Tesla crashes such as this one. A car crash Monday evening in Fremont has resulted in a … Continue reading CA Tesla Kills One in “Veered” Crash Into Building Forcing Mass Evacuation
Executive Summary: Application of Cold War Tactics to Undermine American Democracy This report examines the alarming parallels between Cold War-era propaganda techniques and current practices of Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk. It applies analysis using Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance — unlimited tolerance leads to the disappearance of tolerance — to examine Tesla and … Continue reading Tesla’s Robovan: A National Security Threat Disguised as Innovation
Update October 12, from Mary Trump: Donald Trump has always been for sale. Silicon Valley is abuzz with the news that Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are buying the Whitehouse. It has leaked through private parties, where agents of the South African duo have been asking wealthy foreigners (Saudis, Indians, Russians) to buy into access; … Continue reading Trump is Selling the Whitehouse to South Africans: Musk and Thiel