My Blogging

Blog regulars will notice that I haven't been posting as much lately as I have in the past. There are two reasons. One, it feels harder to find things to write about. So often it's the same stories over and over. I don't like repeating myself. Two, I am busy writing a book. The title is still: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise in a Hyper-Connected World. The book is a year late, and as a very different table of contents than it had in 2016. I have been writing steadily since mid-August. The book is due to the publisher at the end of March 2018, and will be published in the beginning of September.

This is the current table of contents:

• Introduction: Everything is Becoming a Computer
• Part 1: The Trends
  • 1. Capitalism Continues to Drive the Internet
  • 2. Customer/User Control is Next
  • 3. Government Surveillance and Control is Also Increasing
  • 4. Cybercrime is More Profitable Than Ever
  • 5. Cyberwar is the New Normal
  • 6. Algorithms, Automation, and Autonomy Bring New Dangers
  • 7. What We Know About Computer Security
  • 8. Agile is Failing as a Security Paradigm
  • 9. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder
  • 10. Risks are Becoming Catastrophic
• Part 2: The Solutions
  • 11. We Need to Regulate the Internet of Things
  • 12. We Need to Defend Critical Infrastructure
  • 13. We Need to Prioritize Defense Over Offence
  • 14. We Need to Make Smarter Decisions About Connecting
  • 15. What's Likely to Happen, and What We Can Do in Response
  • 16. Where Policy Can Go Wrong
• Conclusion: Technology and Policy, Together

So that's what's been happening.

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