Essays
Essays and notes.
- VPNs make you invisible Today’s article starts in a weird place, water. Let’s think about the water in your house. Water runs through your house’s pipes, and you never see it. You only know the water’s there when you […]
- Encryption is the most important tech on the internet A Police agency is investigating a serious crime. They only find a note. They have no clue what it says. The note is a series of symbols, letters, and numbers. They know it means something […]
- 5 questions before upgrading your phone Spoiler: You probably don’t need an upgrade. Upgrade season is ahead. Google, Apple, and Samsung will be dropping their best devices ever. Of course, they are but you, the average person, wonder if the device […]
- Multi-Factor Authentication: Preventing account hacks Making MFA easy to understand. Two men in ski masks are running towards a solid metal door. As they get to the door, they see a pin pad on the right side. They enter the […]
- How a Trojan horse wrecks havoc Making Trojan horses understandable Everything isn’t how it appears. A huge wooden horse showed up at the gate of the Trojans. The Trojans thought the horse was a peace offering from the Greeks. Little did […]
- You’re giving hackers easy access Explaining password security Your house was broken into. You have 3 safes in your house with 1000’s of dollars. You use the same code for all of the safes. Then you left the code lying […]
- APIs make apps like a restaurant Simplified explanation of APIs You walk into a restaurant and the hostess takes you to a seat. The waiter walks up and hands you a menu. You browse the menu looking over the available choices. […]
- You’re the most dangerous thing to your company How hackers use Social Engineering. It’s Monday morning. You just made it to your desk. As you’re taking the first sip of coffee, you start scrolling through your emails. Google sent you an email saying […]
- What’s A Zero Day and Why They’re Scary Reconsider not updating your technology This past week, Apple released an update to patch 2 zero day exploits. This is a good time to explain zero day exploits and vulnerabilities. Zero days are dangerous. There […]
- Operating systems are the middleman for computer data Explain Operating Systems like I’m 5 When we simplified servers we talked touched on operating systems but let’s dig deeper. An OS (Operating system) is the software allowing the hardware and software to work together. […]