A category about privacy, ethical design, and freedom in many aspects.
Sharing your birthday publicly brings some risks for you, and you might become a victim of a birthday phishing attack. I am sure you are happy when you see the wall of congratulations on your Meta, Twitter, or Linkedin feeds. It brings joy and sometimes false happiness that you have so many friends who care … Read more
My Hacker Noon journey started, I believe, a year ago when I became a shareholder in my effort to support free media initiatives. Last month I decided to write for them about privacy and threat modeling. Two topics I care about. If you are interested in following me there here is my profile.
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
