the wild web

This past weekend, we lost one of the worlds most noble technologists, Peter Eckersley .  Peter and I regularly collaborated when I was work...

Dear software developers: please please please stop making disposable software. Demand for rapid development of software has radically chang...

With this academic year behind me, I had some time to think and reflect on what has brought me where I am.  In 2012, I had an opportunity to...

Sure, I want to stop bad guys, but requiring Apple to make their phones vulnerable is not the right approach.  The current public discourse...

Much has happened on the web in the last two and a half years, and of course I've been too wrapped up in it to say anything here. It&#...

One reason I deleted my Facebook account was what I perceived to be their shampoo-instruction-style erosion of privacy .  They seemed to be ...

I got into a terminology discussion with Brendan this week, and it turns out there's general confusion over these labels we give to bu...

Who uses the password manager, and why? My colleague Monica Chew tries to answer these questions and more by measuring password manager use...