Aug ’23
AI image generators threaten child safety investigations
I believe that generative AI, developed and deployed thoughtfully, has the opportunity to profoundly reshape the world for the better. Emphasis on developed and deployed thoughtfully.
When your classmates threaten you with felony charges
A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund. I was asked to share my experience receiving a legal threat for good-faith security research from my classmates.
Dec ’21
Copyright trolls, inspect element, and the online abuse ecosystem
When you think of a state-sponsored online influence operation, you might picture large sprawling networks of high-follower accounts spreading disinformation. To give one canonical example, Russia’s Internet Research Agency impersonated the Tennessee GOP on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 election, amassing over 130,000 followers before being taken down.
Sep ’21
“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”
In general, open source maintainers owe you nothing. Despite maintainers often being volunteers, some users feel entitled to maintainers’ time, submitting feature requests and expecting the maintainers to implement whatever they want. This is wrong. I repeat, open source maintainers owe you nothing.
