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Tuesday Sweep: Welcome Back!

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

Still angry? Me too! But now I’ve got some beautiful smoldering coals that can roast anything. Let get back to work,

Lanterns rising at Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in 2014, Taiwan. By Jirka Matousek

One Thing To Do Today: On dark days, be the light.

December 21, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments defaults, onething

On this darkest day of the year, let’s talk about the chilling effect poor privacy and security policies can have on

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One Thing To Do Today: Phones get lost and stolen. Encrypt them.

December 20, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments encryption, mobile phones, onething, privacy, security

TL;DR: After doing the Tuesday Sweep, read ArsTechnica’s guide on disk encryption. Add making sure devices have encryption turned on

camera being held to take picture of food at a restaurant, but the phone is wrapped in tinfoil

One Thing To Do Today: Time for some tinfoil

December 17, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments faraday cage, mobile phones, onething, privacy, security

In action movies the experienced guide grabs the befuddled hero’s mobile phone and rips out the battery. Fiddling with location settings helps,

Beyoncé rocking an Elizabethan and Louis XIV inspired modern diva worthy costume

One Thing To Do Today: Institute “Beyoncé Rules” for vetting apps

December 16, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments checklist, mobile phones, onething, privacy, security

TL;DR: An app or service you don’t have can’t spy on you. Be choosey. From all of the previous work

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model 5, How to look for mitigations

December 15, 2016December 16, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments

We had a great conversation with Santa, but it won’t help us at all if we don’t look for ways

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model 4, What the Ulitmate Threat Actor Sees

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 carlyn 3 Comments onething, privacy, security, threat actor, threat model

So now we look at our diagram as if we were one of our threat actor personas. To do things

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One Thing To Do Today: Collect phone numbers for future Tuesday Sweeps

December 13, 2016January 15, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments activism, onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

Back on November 20th, Michelle kicked of the Civic Engagement Survival Guide with the Who’s My Representative Mini Hackathon. She not only

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One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model Part 3, Map The Ecosystem

December 12, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 1 Comment diagram, onething, privacy, security, threat model

I’m the weirdo that loved diagraming sentences, so this next part makes me nerdily happy. Time to take one of

WIP : HTC Vive Lighthouse Beacon, #OpenVR Calibration, Ts3633 for Position Aware Devices

December 12, 2016December 12, 2016 matt 0 Comments ewma, fastled, feather, github, htcvive, lighthouse, NeoPixel, nycresitor, openvr, project, teensy, TS3633-CM1, vive

like many projects, this is a tale of knowing HOW, WHEN, and WHERE to start. i’m never quite sure. HOW does

A hoodie with no face visible, 1's and 0's with pink text stating - Ceci n’est pas une hacker.

One Thing To Do Today: Threat Model Part 2, Who is the threat anyway?

December 10, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments security, threat actor, threat model, user personas

In the early 2000’s I marked some time as a Usability and Human Factors Professional, drawing on neglected novelist within to