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Mental Diet and Exercise

Mental Diet and Exercise

Recently I noticed an old pair of pants were a little tighter than I remembered them being. It was easy for me to jump to the conclusion that I either needed to accept my new fo...

Recording Audio with AirPods in Imovie

Recording Audio with AirPods in Imovie

By default iMovie doesn’t recognize AirPods as a recording device. This probably has to do with Bluetooth latency or quality, etc. but if you want to force iMovie into using the...

What I’m Thinking About March

What I’m Thinking About March

Lots of lost certificates 23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys | Ars Technica The email was sent on Tuesday by the CEO of Trustico, a UK-based reseller o...

What I’m Thinking About January

What I’m Thinking About January

Spectre & Meltdown

Building a Collaborative & Social Application Security Program

Building a Collaborative & Social Application Security Program

It’s no secret that more and more companies are jumping on the Bug Bounty Program band wagon, and for good reason, there is a lot of value to be had there. However, rolling out ...

Scale Your Solution to the Problem

Scale Your Solution to the Problem

It’s important to Scale your solution to the problem at hand vs. trying to scale the problem to your solution. By analogy a master photographer knows when to pull out her iPhone...

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My Experiences with IOS8 and Yosemite so far

I’ve been running iOS8 and Yosemite for a while now, (since early beta, actually). There were some real challenges in the early betas, but the latest version is pretty solid, bu...

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Gmail Changes to Displays Images by Default

Gmail recently changed the way it displays images to you (Official Gmail Blog). From a user perspective this can be good, from a security perspective this might be good, from a ...

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Why I Donated to Help Jailbreak iOS7 & You Should Too

There are almost always multiple sides to any debate in software security. For that reason I find myself saying “It depends” far more than I may expect. I came across isios7jail...

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Email Strategy

I’ve seen a few different articles about people’s different e-mail strategies and they certainly seem to be a hot topic. With our ever reliance on e-mail as a primary mechanism ...