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The Chinese Wall that Isn't

I used to work at a Swiss bank. At investment banks they have a virtual Chinese wall that exists between folks who do deals and the trade floor for obvious reasons. At my bank, and this is back in 2000/2001, the people who did the deals and those who traded shared elevators, lunch rooms, pubs […]

May 31, 2013 | Encryption, Philosophisizing, Politics, Privacy | 1 comment

Life without privacy

If one were to extrapolate where we will be 100 years from now, I think the most profound difference between then and now may be an almost complete absence of privacy. Arthur C Clarke collaborated with Stephen Baxter on a novel called “The Light of Other Days” which describes the development of a camera for […]

March 30, 2012 | Privacy | 2 comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.