GoToMeeting Left Me Some Unwanted "Gifts"
Todd Heberlein Todd Heberlein

GoToMeeting Left Me Some Unwanted "Gifts"

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.

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Information Warfare: Can the US Military Stay Out of Domestic Politics?
Todd Heberlein Todd Heberlein

Information Warfare: Can the US Military Stay Out of Domestic Politics?

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.

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Cyber Warfare Is Different Than We Expected
Todd Heberlein Todd Heberlein

Cyber Warfare Is Different Than We Expected

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.

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Galap Crater on my kitchen table
Todd Heberlein Todd Heberlein

Galap Crater on my kitchen table

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.

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Facebook as the scorpion
Todd Heberlein Todd Heberlein

Facebook as the scorpion

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.

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Flying over DEM Data
Todd Heberlein Todd Heberlein

Flying over DEM Data

First test of my iOS app flying over Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data on my iPad Pro. Colors are based on elevation, and black is shown where there was no data.

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