Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

I recently read the latest accounting statement for Dare Not Walk Alone , the documentary for which I was both a producer and executive prod...

Here's my tip for alleviating a problem frequently encountered by folks on the road: notoriously dry hotel air. At the same time, this t...

That's 2,500+ blog posts if you count all my posts across all my blogs and those of my employer ( ESET ). My blogging is now very infose...

Just a quick post to say that most of my technology-oriented blogging in 2012 will be happening over on the ESET Threat Blog . I am enjoying...

If you are into hardware and software experimentation you might have noticed, with some amazement, that 2012 is the year of DEFCON 20. That...

I got an Amazon Kindle Fire from my wife for Christmas and I'm a bit worried about the effect on the Internet. I should explain that I g...

I just updated this post with a Mavericks screenshot, but the basic point holds true for the past few versions of OS X: the Spotlight search...

What does copyright infringement have to do with scraping oil from the bottom of a barrel and an acronym soup like SOPA, PIPA, DNS and DNSSE...

As some of you know, I hit the ground running when I landed in San Diego at the beginning of September, happy to be back in California, wres...

This is a quick tip for anyone looking to buy a new iPhone or other smartphone this holiday season: Don't buy in California, Massachuset...