(Or how your smart home might outsmart you.) When I was in grade school, I read a Reader’s Digest article with a headline burned into memory: “Ssssh… The Fridge Can Hear Us.” At the time, it wasn’t a dystopian sci-fi warning. It was about superstition—Filipino, Chinese, take your pick. The idea that if you spoke too loudly about good fortune
Tag: digital sovereignty
Have you ever read something that feels like the global version of your family group chat—chaotic, full of drama, and somehow still functional? That’s how I felt digging through the ODNI’s 2025 Annual Threat Assessment (link here) right after publishing The Global Frenemies Report You Didn’t Know You Needed. Let’s just say the vibes matched. If my first post was
When a few government websites got defaced, it wasn’t just a prank—it was a wake-up call that the Philippines is already caught in the crosshairs of a silent cyber war. I didn’t get hacked. No virus took down my PC. No ransomware locked up my files. But when I saw a few Philippine government websites defaced—replaced with foreign symbols, strange