While Russia persists in its ambitions for world dominance, I wonder if Putin notices technology is inventing other realities. First, there was the worldwide net. Next came virtual reality. Now there is the metaverse.   According to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, the metaverse

Whenever I get into trouble on Word Press, the platform for my blogs, I call my technician and ask him to fix it.  If he can’t, he goes to a site where technicians hang out and share information.  Usually, someone has a solution. This open-source watering hole has been a staple th

I have a friend who is averse to reading emails.  That makes it difficult for us to arrange to meet for coffee because I’m averse to telephones.  As spies we’d do dismally.  How would we come together long enough to arrange a dead drop, a place where we would leave and pick up

Hold on to your pacemaker.  Latest news is they can be hacked.  Worse news is that people are making stock bets on that vulnerability. Normally, security companies wouldn’t explore medical devices as an avenue for hacking.  One supposes decoding their encryption wouldn’t take h

Sometimes, if you wait long enough, a problem solves itself. For some time, pundits have been warning about the collapse of our technical infra structure. Not only is our system susceptible to hackers living in the wilds of Nigeria, but to those in Russia and China who can open our hi