From enterprise security trenches to full paranoia
I am Mike D. I have worked in IT and security for some of the largest organizations on Earth. I am also a Boston University graduate school dropout and, for most of my adult life, a flat-broke peasant.
After being involved in more data breaches than I care to count, I largely gave up on traditional cybersecurity. AI is now vacuuming up everything, and the old rules no longer work. These days the smartest move is radical privacy plus staying extremely well-informed.
I am a miserable marketer and an anxious introvert who spends way too many hours reading about AI and privacy. The only reason I am still online is because, for reasons I still do not fully understand, thousands of people read my newsletter, Pithy Cyborg. So instead of pretending I can build a personal brand, I am just giving away the three things I actually use and trust.
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That is it. Three things a paranoid ex-security guy actually uses.
See you Wednesday.
Mike D