The 1990s was the Golden Age of of intrusion detection. A quarter century later, network analysis, by both automated tools and human analysts, still dominates the detection of compromised systems within many enterprises. But technology and business changes over the years have made this much harder.

Some of most well-known cybersecurity companies have recently lost or may be losing their independence, and it is getting hard to point to cybersecurity companies with sustained growing profits.

Attending a Corelight webinar required the, presumably, temporary running of GoToMeeting. Apparently GoToMeeting isn’t so temporary, and it left a bunch of programs largely hidden away and a beacon to call home every 61 minutes.

Just an after work walk around our housing area.

The United States Air Force and Army are adding information warfare as a core component in their missions, but there are no clear lines between foreign government information operations against the US and domestic US politics because foreign governments and US politicians are working together in their disinformation campaigns.

A walk around the neighborhood on a cloudy day.

Here are three TED Talks that illuminate today’s large-scale psychological warfare. The first talk is about how businesses created the perfect weapons for mass psychological warfare, the “persuasion platforms”. The next two talks are about how Russia has been using these persuasion platforms in the US, Great Britain, and increasingly in other parts of the world.

Using Apple’s ARKit to put a Mars crater on my kitchen table. This is my weekend project of visualizing digital terrain data. It’s nice to take a break from cyber security.

Just a quick update of my weekend project first mentioned in the “Flying over DEM Data" post. The 5 km x 5 km grid of elevation data is from Canada’s polar region.

There is a famous parable called the Scorpion and the Fox. Facebook is clearly a scorpion. Central to their business is the collection of as much information as possible about people, so Facebook can help their customers optimally manipulate you. Facebook just can’t help itself but behave the way it does.