The gun control debate in the US is a contentious one. When you really try to dig into the statistics…
In case you haven’t heard, Adobe’s servers were hacked. Just how bad was it? Here’s a mediocre infographic I created, with more details beneath it.
Walmart is going to conquer the world. This can be said with as much certainty as the phrases “the sun will rise tomorrow” and “gravity exists” — a prediction weighted with enough statistical confidence so as to be…
As I write this, I’m in that narrow pocket of time between the submission of my last required work as an undergraduate student, and the commencement ceremony that will more or less mark the end of my years of being somewhat sheltered from the…
Privacy seems like such a simple concept, until you actually try to define it. Then it becomes impossibly complex. When you make a private Facebook post, does that mean only you should be able to see it? What about your friends, or certain groups of friends? Do you expect that your post…
One of the biggest and most far-reaching revelations of the week has been the confirmation that the NSA has been collecting and storing vast amounts of data from telephone and internet service providers. The sheer scale…
Some researchers published an article recently that exposes some fundamental flaws with how Bitcoin operates:
Ittay Eyal and I outline an attack by which a minority group of miners can obtain revenues in excess of their fair share, and…
