Albemarle Sound Ideas

19/06/2022

08/08/2020

A bit geeky, but interesting...

A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads—and its revenues went way up.

05/04/2020

This is kind of cool. It's not often that your work gets featured in the news. As some of you know, I built and continue to maintain the website for the Norfolk Sheriff's Office. This is a feature piece on the latest project completed for them, launched Friday:

WAVY News 10's Andy Fox reports.

08/11/2019

Everyone should watch this:

"Trace a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society."

In a 2-hour documentary, FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI.

01/11/2019

Our latest privacy experiment tested sites for an invisible form of online tracking that you can’t easily avoid.

29/10/2019

This is a great story. White hat hackers are some of my favorite people. Thanks to for being one of the good guys.

Thanks to Michael Gillespie, an obscure programmer at a Nerds on Call repair store, hundreds of thousands of ransomware victims have recovered their files for free.

23/08/2019

Look familiar? Don't buy this Instagram privacy hoax: http://bit.ly/2Pc92wH

21/06/2019

01/12/2018

The Internet has changed everything, this much we know. Yet not much is known about its mysterious origins. An eight-section compilation answering the where and who the Web came from.

11/08/2017

We’ve all been forced to do it: create a password with at least so many characters, so many numbers, so many special characters, and maybe an uppercase letter. Guess what? The guy who invented these standards nearly 15 years ago now admits that they’re basically useless. He is also very sorry.

02/08/2017

Lost in the din of more salacious recent news was this little tidbit, which is actually quite impactful. It will lead to some fundamental changes on the Internet, and will affect hundreds of thousands of websites. I've been avoiding Flash for a couple of years now simply because I thought this was coming (Flash was doomed when Apple refused to try and integrate it into IOS), and while it was a game-changer in its time, as happens with many technological marvels, this is one that has reached its obsolescence. Happy trails, Flash.

After helping pave the way for YouTube, countless games and millions of browser-based irritations, Flash is ending.

21/01/2017

Technology built to uplift and connect people should not be turned into a tool of oppression. Read our open letter to the tech industry, published as a full-page ad in Wired Magazine today. As Trump takes office, we're calling on tech to delete logs, encrypt data, shed light on government demands, and fight for user rights in court & in policy. Read more and see the ad: https://eff.org/defend-users