Brain Training with @lumosity #biohacking #brain #braintraining

My Brain Performance Score, courtesy of Luminosity.com. I’m turning 40 in less than 18 months, and so as I get older I am trying to stave off physical and mental decline. I’ve been doing this since I turned 32, so it’s not a new thing for me. Additionally, I’ve become interested in biohacking, or the […]

Android Platform Getting More and More Risky @falkvinge @gappsupdates @airbnb @mxdataapps #nsa #gchq #angrybirds #permissions #snowden #gnu #copyleft

It’s no longer news that the NSA and GCHQ are using ‘leaky apps’ such as Angry Birds to gain access to people’s data on their mobiles. That I can write that with conviction and that it is considered the ‘new normal’ is disturbing enough in itself. Additionally, there are more and more malware attacks on […]

Great Technology is Awesome #futurism #technology

Images from kickstarter.com and wolfram.com respectively. Along the lines of my post yesterday, I’ve come across two examples of additional technology that I think are very cool. One is hardware, and the other is software. The first is a kickstarter.com project for “Your Personal Flying Robot”, otherwise known as a pocket drone. I’ve linked to […]

Great UX is Awesome #futurism #technology

Picture from 79er.com. As I get older, I have begun to appreciate the concept of the “User Experience” (UX) – the idea that things should be designed well and that they should be imagined with their end-user in mind from the start. It’s a concept that has been at the forefront of my work-life lately, […]

Are Banks Safe? The End of Bank Secrecy (h/t @zerohedge) #agorism

Image of the G20 nations from wikipedia.org. The idea of bank secrecy is coming to an end. As governments continue to run out of money, they are continuing to look for ways to squeeze every last cent out of any revenue they can. The OECD member nations will now “implement a global standard for automatically […]

Cybersecurity Trends for 2014 – Trend 1 – Botclouds not Botnets #security #infosec

Picture from stackbots.com. Cross-posted to the Blue Coat security blog. I’d been attempting to figure out how in the future it will be that botnets will continue to be relevant. It occurred to me that with cloud infrastructure, that malware authors have the perfect opportunity to create or destroy as many machines as they want […]

#DeepWeb Lesson Number Five: How to Convert #Litecoins to #Bitcoins Easily #agorism

Image from bitcoinboard.net. Bitcoins require ASICs to mine these days, so outside of heading over to butterflylabs.com or kncminer.com and plunking down a fair bit of cash, how does one easily get Bitcoins? The answer is by mining Litecoins and converting them to Bitcoins. Mining Litecoins requires much less power in terms of hardware (for […]

My Visit to Azte.co Today @joonian @coindesk @blockchain #bitcoin #lovelondon #agorism #gloriousagoristfuture

Picture of the Azte.co storefront, taken by me 20140221. I read about Azte.co at coindesk.com, in this article. I posted about wanting to visit the store myself. I had originally planned to do so tomorrow (Saturday) but as I was walking my wife to the bus stop for her meeting anyway, I decided I’d go […]

Trends in #CyberSecurity for 2014 #bitcoin #litecoin #botcloud #deepweb #malware #bigdata

Picture from Northeastern.edu. I gave a talk at the Info Crime Summit in London yesterday, and identified what I think will be six trends in cybersecurity. I won’t provide the details here – I plan to outline those on my company’s blog – but I will provide a link to those posts on twitter. (You […]

New Bitcoin Shop Right Here in London! #bitcoin #lovelondon #agorism (h/t @joonian @coindesk)

Screenshot of azte.co logo from their website. There’s a place to by buy Bitcoins directly for cash in London. I’m intrigued – I was wondering when something like this would pop up. Of course I have several questions surrounding this. The first one is when I can actually visit – there don’t seem to be […]