Anatomy of a rental phishing scam 🎣
I was recently the (unsuccessful) target of a very well-crafted phishing scam. As part of a housing search a few weeks ago, I was trawling craigslist and zil...
Jeffrey Ladish Homepage
Welcome to my home page. You'll find a collection of my work here: guides to securing your online accounts and personal devices, write-ups on risks from emerging technologies, book and article reviews, and some information about me. If you're interested in the motivation for my work, and how I think we got here, read this post.If you would like to follow my writing, please join my mailing list
Recent Posts
Absent coordination, future technology will cause human extinction
Originally written on Medium Nick Bostrom, of the Future of Humanity Institute, uses an evocative metaphor to describe the future of humanity’s technologi...
One Hundred Opinions on Nuclear War
One of my friends on Twitter, Venkatesh Rao, recently challenged people to write one hundred tweets on one topic. I took the bait, and wrote one hundred op...
The Problem with San Francisco
Originally written on Medium Smoke chokes the city, the nearby forests are on fire, and towns are burning down as I sit here writing this. It is the fall ...
Does the US nuclear policy still target cities?
The history of nuclear strategic bombing Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine brought my attention to a horrifying fact about early US nuclear targeting...
Letting Go Without Giving Up Permalink
I wrote this for the 2018 bay area solstice celebration. A recording is available here.
Schelling Network Oracles are Vulnerable to Manipulation Permalink
Schelling oracles should be abandoned in favor of better systems. It’s better to have a small group of verified & trusted reporters than a trivially gama...
How to use Yubikeys for your Gmail second factor
Created by Landfish This tutorial explains how to configure your account with two security keys and an authenticator app. This is the highest form of Gmail ...
How to set up Signal Messenger
Created by Landfish Android How to: Use Signal for Android iOS How to: Use Signal on iOS Desktop - Mac or Windows How do I install Signal ...