art, cats, data, people, philosophy, security, tech, Uncategorized

Kittens, Pr0n, and Bad Juju in the Blockchain

July 2, 2017

Modern digital currency mostly seem to revolve around a construct called a blockchain, which – by design – is a (mostly![1]) append-only distributed database that is intended to keeps all...

dinosaurs, friend, people, security

Security is….

July 3, 2016

I once had lunch with Paul Karger at IBM Watson labs while visiting my pal Wietse many years ago. I’d known he’d been around a long time… so I asked...

dinosaur, friend, people, security, Uncategorized

It was 20 years ago today…

April 5, 2015

… and a few lifetimes… that wietse and I released SATAN.  What a long strange journey, as they say. Thanks to all the folks who used it, to the friends who...

art, me, people, wine

wine of the timez

February 14, 2015

It was a good night! In order: Marc Hebrart Brut Rosé NV Dom Ruinart Brut, 2002 Dom Perignon, 2004 Illuminated Magnum Roederer Cristal 2006 Dom Perignon, 2002 Rosé All were...

feminism, people, philosophy, science, security, sexism, tech

Def Con, Jeff Moss, and Sexism

July 1, 2014

I suppose this could be subtitled “why I won’t be going to Def Con again.” Last August I wrote a letter to Jeff Moss (who is the founder of Def...