Former Mayor Richard M. Daley is aiming to cash in on a federal program that gives foreigners the chance to obtain permanent U.S. residency in exchange for investing in businesses that create jobs in the United States. Tur Partners — which Daley formed with his son Patrick Daley after leaving office…

Discipline, specifically self-discipline is a tricky beast. It has become a recurring puzzle for me, a word that I come back to frequently, and a concept that I am frequently directed to. The concept of discipline exposes new riddles with each angle that I look at it from. With any subject I…

I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read by over a million people, and I updated it earlier thise year. External references – and steps to get off properly – at the bottom. Oh, and if you’re…

The Cheat Sheet Series project has been moved to GitHub ! Please visit Authentication Cheat Sheet to see the latest version of the cheat sheet.

Yesterday, the court granted Warner Bros’s motion to dismiss my lawsuit against them. While Warner Bros crows victory, the judge has in fact left the door open for me to pursue my claim, allowing my legal team twenty days to revise our complaint and address the single issue of concern: the corporate…

I listened to many good talks at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg (GER) last December. I was especially impressed by "Crypto Tales from the Trenches" by Nadia Heninger, Julia Angwin, Laura Poitras, and Jack Gillum, and "Reconstructing narratives" by Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras.…