About Bob Gourley
Bob Gourley is the CTO and Co-Founder of the due diligence and cybersecurity consultancy OODA LLC , which publishes CTOvision.com and OODAloop.com. Bob's background is as an all source intelligence analyst and an enterprise CTO.
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Cyber War
This One Little Configuration Change Will Make It Harder For People To Steal Your Information
Editor’s note: We are aiming this tutorial at the non-technical person. Please share with anyone in your life who could benefit from this. -bg Cyberspace is a complex domain and our adversaries are always seeking new ways to steal information or spread their malicious code or hold our data for ransom. This is the big reason […]
Think Twice Before Deciding To Use A Personal VPN: You could be getting some really bad advice
From the 1930s to 1950s (far too long) the medical community just would not wake up to the fact that cigarettes could cause harm (see More Doctors Smoke Camels). Why did they stick with this misperception for so long? When so many good people come to the wrong conclusion it probably means some deeply human […]
Please help spread the word: USNI and NIP Essay Contest: This year’s challenge area a key one for the nation
Please help share the content at this link to any thinker/writer you know: 2020 Information Warfare Essay Contest This contest is open to all contributors, active-duty, military, reservists, veterans, and civilians. Generally the winners have had a solid understanding of the nature of modern conflict, but really any thinkers/writers should look over the contest and […]
SciFi
Super Bowl Ads Indicate Big Businesses Think You Are Afraid of AI
Tom Loftus provided an insightful review of some of Super Bowl ads in the 4 Feb 2019 Wall Street Journal. Like AI parody in SNL, these ads really poked fun at computers: Seriously, did anyone catch the commercials? If the Super Bowl is the zeitgeist, then it is safe to say that America is not […]
HBO’s Westworld: The Man In Black is a special kind of Twitter user
HBO’s Westworld is a modern take on the Michael Crichton SciFi tale of a robotic amusement park. The HBO version has a new twist. The creators/writers were all exposed to years of Twitter, which has influenced every episode and the entire arch of two seasons of the show. Now that season two is wrapping up, […]
All Enterprise Techies Should Watch HBO’s SciFi Epic Westworld: It will help us dialog over shared experiences on what we will not be creating
Westworld season one was a great mix of science fiction and drama and action and it was done in a way that should help people think through many tech ethics questions, like how do we want to treat our robots? Does treating robots with violence change our nature? Can robots become sentient? HBO has a […]