Taking ethical action in identity: 5 steps for better biometrics
| Published in Help Net Security this week: Taking Ethical Action in Identity – 5 Steps Towards Better Biometrics Glance at your phone. Tap a screen. Secure access granted! This is the power of biometric identity at work. The convenience of unlocking your phone with a fingertip or your face is undeniable. But ethical issues […]
SnowShoe Launches New Year with New Executives, New Website
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan 11, 2019 — SnowShoe, the leading developer of physical presence systems for mobile event authentication, today announced the appointment of Ned Hayes as VP of Product. The company also launched a new website at Snow.sh. Portland startup expert Rick Turoczy introduced Hayes to the hiring team at SnowShoe. Turoczy is the Portland […]
Beat Box Breakdown: Board Game Creation
Here are some pictures, as well as some of the instructions for the game. Your hip-hop journey in Beat Box Breakdown travels in a clockwise spiral as you move from listener to garage rapping to freestyling in local venues to national online acclaim and then opening in national stadiums, culminating in Coachella, Los Angeles and […]
Beating the DeepMaster Print Exploit
Philip Bontrager, lead researcher on the “DeepMasterPrint” fingerprint hack, thinks that the SureID process for high-fidelity fingerprint enrollment has multiple layers of protection against hackers. “The NYU research into DeepMasterPrint is fascinating, but it focuses on low-fidelity, smartphone-based authentication,” says Ned Hayes. “SureID’s system is built with patent-pending technology that prevents fraudulent activity.” Bontrager’s DeepMasterPrint […]
Cyber Defense Magazine: How to be Smarter about Biometrics
Article in Cyber Defense Magazine, January 2019 — Ned Hayes, General Manager, SureID Facial recognition, one of the most popular methods of biometric enrollment and customized marketing, will bring us to ultra-surveillance, targeted assassinations and Black Mirror-style oversight. At least, this is what critics of the technology would have you believe. Yet we don’t see […]
The Biometric Threat – Some Preventative Measures
| New post published by Technica Curiosa. Complete article here >>We live in an age where personal information is difficult to protect, and passwords are far from unbreakable. Recently, IBM surveyed nearly 4,000 people and learned that 67% are comfortable using biometrics, and 87% would be comfortable using biometric authentication in the future. Millennials are particularly comfortable with […]
The Oly Arts Success Story: $350K exit
Founder of local multi-platform publication group successfully sells off publication unit to local entrepreneur Coverage included: The Olympian: Founder Sells to Local Marketing Leader Sound Sound Business: Oly Arts Bought by Local Publisher OLY ARTS, the three-year-old multiplatform publication focused on arts and cultural events in Thurston County and surrounding regions, announced today that the […]
AI, Ethics and Algorithms
An important talk at Gluecon this year, outlining some of the basic considerations around ethical decision-making and the complications that may result when artificial intelligence is chosen as a primary method for a system to learn and take semi-autonomous action.
Google I/O Day Zero 2018
I love going to developer shows and talking to software engineers about the toolsets our teams develop at Intel. For me, since I spend so much of my time in meetings and planning sessions, it is a refreshing opportunity to re-engage with the actual use cases and the actual developer customers who use our tools. […]
TED Talk: Balancing Life in Writing and Tech
I recently had the opportunity to talk at some length with an engaged set of students. (I talk regularly to school groups, and if you’d like to book me to talk to your school group, you can contact my booking agent here.) We discussed both my high tech career as well as my writing, and […]