Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Book Review: "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends"

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This blog post is a review of the book "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends" by Nicole Perlroth. The book tries to shed light ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The missing OS

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Preface: When I joined Google in 2011, I quoted a quip of a friend of mine: "There are roughly one and a half computers in the world, a...
Friday, August 14, 2020

My Twitter-Discussion-Deescalation Policy

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Twitter is great, and Twitter is terrible. While it enables getting in contact and starting loose discussions with a great number of people,...
Monday, May 18, 2020

My self-help guide to making sense of a confusing world

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It has become painfully evident over the last decade or so that social media has a somewhat corrosive effect on "truth" and ...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Before you ship a "security mitigation" ...

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Hey everybody, During my years doing vulnerability research and my time in Project Zero, I frequently encountered proposals for new secur...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Rashomon of disclosure

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In a world of changing technology, there are few constants - but if there is one constant in security, it is the rhythmic flare-up of discu...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Turing completeness, weird machines, Twitter, and muddled terminology

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First off, an apology to the reader: I normally spend a bit of effort to make my blog posts readable / polished, but I am under quite a fe...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

A bank statement for app activity (and thus personal data)

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During my long sabbatical in 2015-2016 I had plenty of time to think about random things and come up with strange ideas. Most of these idea...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Two small notes on the "malicious use of AI" report

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After a long hiatus on this blog, a new post! Well, not really - but a whitepaper was published today titled " The Malicious Use of A...