A category about privacy, ethical design, and freedom in many aspects.
I had a strange situation: I was using G**gle Translate to transform some string from English to a few of the languages spoken in Indian to greet my teem better. A few days after that, I opened my Spotify app, and surprise – my recommendation feed was full of newly discovered Indian songs. The “coincidence” … Read more
I see the future. I see it so clear to see one message you will receive a few years from now. “Dear Customer, The BlahBlah monitoring system has noticed suspicious attempts to log in to multiple users’ accounts (an AI brute-force technique). Your account has been recognized with potentially weak security settings. Therefore, to prevent … Read more
I am so happy that Citrix allowed me to release under Creative Commons license the threat modeling framework I developed in the last four months. What was the challenge? Doing threat modeling is one of the main requirements for almost any Agile organization. Most of the teams are doing it wrong, and as an award, … Read more
Problem: How many times you received a food delivery and you see on the tax receipt written your name, address, and phone number? How many packages did you get from a courier with the same data written with giant letters? Data that could identify you is private, and we must protect it. At the same … Read more
Most of the companies I worked for or know about have a bizarre threat modeling process. They count on the architect or the most knowledgeable person to do the threat modeling. It’s defined as a one-person job! If your goal is to do it, because it’s one of the required artifacts for your service to … Read more
It’s not a secret, I am one of the few guys left on the planet who do not believe in the magic of SEO. I believe SEO methods are good, but they must be combined with user prediction models and utilizing user behavior for better content serving. Why am I writing this? Well I think … Read more
