Origins of “Information Security”

I’ve promised for a while, years really, to write-up the etymology of the word “hacker”. This always is a popular topic among the information security crowd. Although I regularly talk about it at conferences and put it in my presentations, the written form has yet to materialize. Suddenly I instead feel compelled to write about … Continue reading Origins of “Information Security”

American Pro-Slavery History Markers

Charlotte, North Carolina, has a “Confederate” history marker that I noticed while walking on my way into meetings at Bank of America headquarters. It is in need of major revision, if not removal. Let me start this story at the end. My searches online for more information eventually found a “NC Markers” program with an … Continue reading American Pro-Slavery History Markers