Alex Macra

Opinionanted tech writing

The recent Romanian election presents a fascinating case study of modern digital election interference, with many ramifications, but particularly through social media manipulation. What’s even more interesting is the ongoing development that seems to never end. While researching the cybersecurity aspect of the incident, the analysis went touched a bit of the political side as […]

Continuing from last month’s progress report. Ever since lowering the writing pace and reconsidering my approach to the cybersecurity blog, I feel a sort of calm (for now at least).

This month, I’ve been diving deep into how AI is reshaping software development lifecycles. After analyzing Stack Overflow’s latest survey and correlating it with real-world implementations and a few research papers, something interesting emerged: we’re asking the wrong questions again, just as we did with privacy-focused applications.

I’ve focused this month on researching the fall of Bohemia/Cannabia, the notorious dark web markets. This led me to several Finnish investigations and of course, it was a good time to read again about the first dark web market that was cracked down more than a decade ago: The Silk Road.

This year, January went fast, my honeymoon concluded, and February arrived with surprising swiftness as well. While it didn’t bring much time to settle in, it did however inspire a renewed passion for writing.