The “Biography of the Pixel” book is written by the co-founder of Pixar and tells the fascinating story of digital light. I highly recommend it to anyone involved in quantum or classical computing. The story of 1950's digital innovation (now classical or legacy technology) that it details also illuminates the…

It is 5-years since NIST and the NSA declared that “now is the time” to implement quantum hardening … and the technology is finally at a tipping point into the mainstream. https://cryptome.org/2016/01/CNSA-Suite-and-Quantum-Computing-FAQ.pdf It is good to see quantum coming into the money, leaving behind the taunts of science project, lion…

The US Government sets cybersecurity law and is the world’s largest consumer of cybersecurity. There are 180 cybersecurity companies locally, plus defense contractors, and the “Big 5” West Coast IT vendors There is 350% more cybersecurity talent here than in the rest of the US combined. Technology is woven into…

I made the following quick observations in the context of cybersecurity startups, especially those from Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel looking to enter the world’s largest cybersecurity market in the US. CAGE distance is a short-hand for the Cultural, Administrative, Geographic, and Economic distances that exist between…

I really enjoyed the “rags to riches to rags” story of BlackBerry (BB). https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Signal-Extraordinary-Spectacular-BlackBerry/dp/1250096065 Was fun to step back from my day to day work in secure mobile and think about longer term changes in the mobile world over the last 20 years. My 2c insights are that BB just…