Award-winning author, journalist. Shaped like the hole in your heart.
Engadget, Popular Science, freelance reporter on hacking, privacy, sexuality, human rights. Previously SF Chronicle, ZDNet, CBS, O Magazine, many more.
Six IPPY awards (2023 Gold); notable book appearance: Oprah; Advisor to Without My Consent.
Coming soon: Mental Health and Horror (documentary).
New book: https://www.amazon.com/Fish-Has-Word-Water-Francisco-ebook/dp/B0BQ5FG59C
New: UK Inquiry report live, 150,000+ uncounted 2020-2021 US deaths, a sex worker Covid safety workshop (online, this weekend), Netherlands is experiencing record C19 lows (see, it *can* be done!), 400K in NZ have #LongCovid as surge continues, Long Covid affects 18 million Americans, local risk levels, more:
NEW: Meta and the Heritage Foundation are behind online age-check laws being pushed worldwide, Iran hacked a multinational US company and remote-wiped most of its devices, BuzzFeed nears bankruptcy after pivot to AI, random acts of Kiwi compassion, and more.
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-17-153242517
New: Physics Girl is back! #LongCovid books for kids, Covid is 2x as deadly as RSV in AU + US, new research: Covid can directly infect heart tissue, places lighting up for International Long Covid Awareness Month, updated local risk levels, and more.
And I had somehow missed that Wil Wheaton caved to antimask pressure and got C19 (and talked about it).
Cats await you: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-march-5-152269864
Art by Anna Zagerson.
"Advice For Coping With 2026: Webworm gets a trauma & bereavement counselor to weigh in."
New: Epstein’s obsession with DEF CON and his pet “personal hacker” (who held senior position at CrowdStrike), Pentagon demands Anthropic remove AI safeguards so they can do awful things, a paper on evaluating anti-facial recognition tools, and more.
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-3-149811720
New:
- Palantir staff become the “are we the baddies” meme
- Tim Cook at Melania makes us rush to cover Apple logos with stickers
- game devs to skip GDC 2026 over ICE concerns
- Microsoft shares keys with the FBI
- the big dick subreddit hates ICE
- nearly half of the countries on Trump’s Board of Peace banned from entering US
- I want to cover DEF CON Singapore, and more.
Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-27-149223028
Art: "Don't worry, I've got you" by Topsy, outside the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle
