Are AI Models the New Firearms?
"Last week" (https://mgamble.ca/p/sovereign-ai-is-the-new-space-race-canada-just-brought-a-sparkler) I argued that sovereign AI was the new space race and that Canada was bringing a sparkler to the...
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Won't Someone Please Think of the Children, Microwave Edition
I was visiting a friend recently who had just bought a new microwave. I went to open it to reheat a coffee, and I could not. I pulled the handle. Nothing. I pulled harder, in case the thing was just...
Some Days Should Belong to Everyone
Thirty years ago I worked in a movie theatre. The schedule went up on a clipboard in the back office every Friday for the following week, and I learned very quickly that there were two kinds of yes...
It's Not the Pricing, It's the Opacity
The New York Times reported this week that Maryland became the first US state to ban AI-driven price increases at grocery stores. The law takes effect in October. It prohibits grocery stores and...
The Ice Cream Invitation Problem
Earlier this week I was at the mall with my friend "Dave" (not his real name), shoe shopping. The reason we were at the mall isn't important, but it sets the scene. We left the shoe store, Dave turned...
Did I Just Talk to a Person?
Over the weekend I had to call a plumbing service. Tenant had a broken toilet, bad timing, the usual Saturday night special. Like most after-hours services, I didn't get connected to a plumber. I got...
Defence in Debt: When Security Spending Doesn't Buy Security
There's a special kind of technical debt that doesn't show up in Jira. It doesn't sit in a backlog. It doesn't have a product owner. It doesn't even admit it exists. It lives in PowerPoint. I call it...
Stop Inspecting Everything: The Case Against Universal TLS Interception
For the past decade, I've watched enterprise security teams deploy TLS inspection appliances with the best of intentions. The pitch is always the same: we need visibility into encrypted traffic to...