My consulting clients are mostly large financial firms, and in recent years all of them have at least some footprint in public cloud. Although the cultures and work environments differ wildly across my clients, one thing they all have in common is that at some point a platform administrator will…

Two phone scammers walk into a bar to lament their declining revenue over drinks. “People don’t even answer their phones anymore,” says the first phone scammer. “We might have to find another crooked line of business.” “Hold my beer,” says the second scammer. Then this happened. That first screen shot…

Pogo famously said “We have met the enemy and he is us.” I was reminded of that today reading Tony Fish’s post #Identity. Are we (the industry) the problem? Maybe. Tony asks “How come, as an industry where 3.2bn people have a digital identity, are we so fragmented, uncoordinated and…

Dear Mike, I heard that the retail distribution channels for My Pillow dried up after you were seen at the White House carrying notes about martial law and the Insurrection Act. While I fully support the reaction of national retailers to this news, I worry that My Pillow employees may…

What does the term “malware” bring to mind? Something that steals your information? Logs your keystrokes? Turns your device into a bot? How about malware that shows you ads? AdWare is a type of malware designed to do exactly that. Whereas legitimate ad traffic is served inside an app or…

And by “not impressed” I mean that there’s a good chance that impression an advertiser paid for was coerced and likely causing bad will for the advertiser, which is pretty much the opposite of what was intended. Implicit in the value of online ads are the assumptions that ad impressions…

A couple of years ago I discovered that Yandex, roughly described as Russia’s equivalent of Google and a known SigInt partner of the Kremlin, had installed key loggers on dozen’s of the Internet’s top web sites, including a leading porn payment gateway. …

An open letter to Samsung — Earlier today I received an email from Samsung’s SmartThings department who wanted to tell me “Five things to take your smart home to the next level.” I’ve been playing around with Z-Wave a bit lately and as it happens I have my own list of things vendors of “smart” devices…

Before you delete your Facebook account, go have a look at the No Boundaries series by Princeton U. …