Armed security in schools makes adults outside schools feel better, but it doesn’t actually solve anything. While the gun industry actively blocked research on gun… Read More »Armed Security in Schools Doesn’t Keep Anyone Safe
If you run a company that does anything online, at some point you will probably need to talk with an independent privacy or security researcher.… Read More »Things To Do (and Things To Avoid) When a Privacy or Security Researcher Calls
On March 22, on Twitter, @bubbaprog posted about receiving a phishing email that targeted verified Twitter users. The thing that made this post stand out… Read More »Typosquatting: Online Fraud Has a Best Friend
As of this writing, 3.2 million people have had to leave Ukraine due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin’s war has created a humanitarian crisis,… Read More »Getting Aid to Ukraine
Due to Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, videos and images of the war have been shared widely on social media. This brings up multiple related… Read More »Sharing Content During Conflicts and Wars
The Tracker Radar from DuckDuckGo is an awesome project – for those not familiar with it, it’s a comprehensive list of organizations that maintain tracking… Read More »Working with DuckDuckGo’s Tracker Radar
A couple weeks ago, I pushed Trapper Keeper out the door. Trapper Keeper is a collection of tools that I’ve been using for years to… Read More »Trapper Keeper, Now With Actual Documentation
tl;dr I am releasing a collection of scripts to support Open Content creation, and other forms of online research. The code is available under an… Read More »The Trapper Keeper Has Left the Building
It’s human nature to try and reduce things down to a binary – a yes/no, either/or – but reality tends to be more both/and with… Read More »Reducing Risk Is Not the Same as Remote Learning
tl;dr Disproving every lie that is embedded in misinformation is time consuming and exhausting, and prevents us from talking about the things that matter to… Read More »Fighting Misinformation: Debunk and Disengage