Random. Fun. Ideas.

Hi, I'm Mark. I’m a forensic scientist, speaker, and technology analyst exploring how we think about privacy and security. I publish that privacy and security work on my main site markn.ca

I ❤️ learning and exploring new ideas. Documenting these ideas and experiments really helps me dig deeper and better understand the topic. The good news? It's fun to share those ideas and this site is one of the ways I do that.

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Words I didn't know

An ever growing list definitions of words that I’ve stumbled across and didn’t know. While trying to clean up...

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Does the iTunes store still exist?

Scanning headlines yesterday and I stumbled across this one, “Taylor Swift’s new album is reviving iTunes like it’s 2009”. The...

The case of the curved monitor

Update: The monitor stopped feeling curved about 3 weeks after I got it. One thing that helped cement the perspective...

Can Google Gemini help me become a better writer?

While updating my main site—markn.ca—I archived a lot of posts. These posts are still available on the site, but they...