The Pernicious Persistence of Bullshit Once It’s Been Reported by a Major, Ostensibly Trustworthy Outlet

★ Department of Justice Reopens Spat With Apple Over iPhone Encryption

If law enforcement officials choose to wage a campaign to make strong encryption illegal under they guise that only “good guys” would have the circumvention keys, that’s on them, but news media need to get their shit together on the fact that what l…

The Pernicious Persistence of Bullshit Once It’s Been Reported by a Major, Ostensibly Trustworthy Outlet

Inadvertently Prescient

Stanley Black & Decker’s Consolidation of the Power Tools Market

[Sponsor] The Square Small Business Hackathon

[Sponsor] The Square Small Business Hackathon

Unfortunately Prescient

Thinking Through the Manifold Ramifications of Collecting Smartphone Data for Contact Tracing

The Pernicious Persistence of Bullshit Once It’s Been Reported by a Major, Ostensibly Trustworthy Outlet

The Pernicious Persistence of Bullshit Once It’s Been Reported by a Major, Ostensibly Trustworthy Outlet

The Pernicious Persistence of Bullshit Once It’s Been Reported by a Major, Ostensibly Trustworthy Outlet

Stanley Black & Decker’s Consolidation of the Power Tools Market

[Sponsor] The Square Small Business Hackathon

[Sponsor] The Square Small Business Hackathon

Stanley Black & Decker’s Consolidation of the Power Tools Market

How Signal Integrates With Giphy While Preserving Privacy

Stanley Black & Decker’s Consolidation of the Power Tools Market

Edison Mail Bug Allowed Access to Email Accounts of Other Users

Edison Mail Vulnerability Allowed Access to Email Accounts of Other Users

★ A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project

“Unbending stance” is a rather harsh description of Apple and Google’s desire not to (a) “undermine people’s privacy” or (b) “drain phone battery life”. This isn’t an “unbending stance”. It’s table stakes for designing a system that people will actu…