Security Boulevard is telling me that when they repost my content they get a lot of views — scraping my blog even generated one of their most popular pages in 2022. As we close out 2022, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in … Continue reading “Best of 2022”: flyingpenguin Blog wins Security Boulevard Award
Motor Trend in 2017 wisely called the Chevy Bolt their car of the year. They’re now positively gushing over their prediction, calling the electric car’s engineering refreshing; very modestly it just keeps getting better and better. While most buyers largely ignored it, the Bolt, like a fine red wine, kept getting better with age. The … Continue reading “Chevy Bolt, like a fine red wine, kept getting better with age.”
As I warned back in April, we now are exactly where anyone could have predicted. Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find. Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said. Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up … Continue reading Twitter Code Quality Crashing, Hate Speech Exploding and Unregulated
People often falsely believe the private sector always delivers better technology than a government. The public sector instead is capable of delivering dramatically better results, if you measure properly (safety). First, let’s just set aside the point that terrible public sector technology is truly terrible. Boston is home to Harvard, MIT and… the MTBA. In … Continue reading Simple Economics Explains Why Gov Tech Safer Than Private Sector