The Rules of Mobile App Design (Presentation Slides)
Last week I had the honor of presenting to the NJ Mobile Meetup group. NJ Mobile is a collection of about 300 mobile technology enthusiasts that I co-organize. While I’ve been one of the groups organizers for quite some time, this was the first time that I actually spoke at an event. Much to my delight the presentation, which was partially based on my blog post The Rules of Mobile App Design, was very well-received.
My goal was to record the presentation and slides and post a video, but I’ve been experiences some technical difficulties of the crashing variety whenever I try to record my screen and voice at the same time. So here are the slides, and I hope to add the full video presentation soon:
Rules_of_Mobile_App_Design (PDF)
Morris’s Three Golden Rules of Computer Security
“Do not own a computer;
Do not power it on;
and do not use one.”
Since you are reading this post, you’ve already broken the rules as I have.
You’re probably wondering who Morris is, and if he’s a total nut.
I can’t tell you if he’s a nut, but I can tell you that he is a cryptographer and very significant figure in computer history.
The first time I remember hearing of the “three golden rules” was back in my high school computer science class… but I forgot all about them. I found them again yesterday while reading the novel, Freedom™ (more on that when I finish the book).
The book explains them about as well as my comp sci teacher did:
“It wasn’t meant as a surrender. It was a meditation on risk versus benefit. Did these systems give us more than they took from us? It was an admission that we will never be fully secure. We must instead strive for survivability.”
When I first learned the concept years ago, it wasn’t that big of an issue. In the late 90′s, there wasn’t a lot of personal information on the Internet, but it was clear that things were about to change… and they did. Today is another story.
I’ve written a bit on privacy and security, but I suspect that I will be writing more in the near future.
If you’re interested in security in a more philosophical sense, I strongly recommend you read the work of Adriana Lukas.
If tangible security (with a little philosophy) is more to your liking, check out Alec Muffett.
Be mindful of what you enter into a data-field.
Practice safe computing.
