Yours Truly exercises his speaking skills at the Shareware Industry Awards…

Twitter suffered yet another security PR nightmare thanks to a weak password. Coincidentally, a mature antivirus firm chose that moment to advertise an online file storage service with passwords limited to only letters and numbers…

This, finally, is the abso­lutely true story from 1989 when I turned down my pub­li­sher’s offer to get intro­duced to the bil­lion­aire big­wig at a secret Las Vegas COMDEX party…

Hmmm. Does he read my personal blog?

Wired magazine once “outed” me as a CIA operative. This, finally, is the absolutely true story from 1998 when an Iranian taxi driver took me against my will to CIA headquarters and held me hostage…

Is somebody throwing away my FOIA requests at Barks­dale AFB, LA?

Irony, anyone? Computer security firm WebSense sends “announcement” emails with no opt-out…

Netbooks bring us one step closer to Jeff Dunte­mann’s vision of a full-blown com­pu­ter lurking under a Star Trek com­mu­ni­ca­tor…

Calling it an encyclopaediae won’t suffice, as it doesn’t signify a mass plural noun. The shortened form “wiki” won’t suffice, as that term now describes any given single compendium of knowledge. I’ll admit ‘wikii’ would suffice, but I strongly suggest we need a dissimilar word to avoid confusion, as it’s too close to both “wiki” and “wikia”…

My hometown is Wellman, Iowa. It’s where I buried the love of my life. It’s where I buried my heart. And it’s where I’ll be buried someday…