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Independent journalist. Naval defense analyst. Privacy, security and the right to be forgotten.

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Samuel Bocetta’s Biography

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Former defense contractor for the US Navy. Defense analyst and freelance Middle East and ASEAN correspondent for a number of media outlets. Senior Research Engineer. Principal Investigator. Infosec consultant. Prev: penetration testing ballistics computers systems for all phases of spacecraft, aircraft, and some marine vessels.

I find radical -- often heretical -- solutions to "impossible"​ network security problems, and push early stage concepts from research to development. Program setup, peo…

Samuel Bocetta’s Journalist Portfolio

The federal privacy bill: Intel gets the ball rolling

The federal privacy bill: Intel gets the ball rolling

Amid all the hype that surrounded the recent US mid-term elections - health-care reform, the migrant caravan,…

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7 Preventative Cybersecurity Tips SMBs Should Take Today

7 Preventative Cybersecurity Tips SMBs Should Take Today

Digital security attacks and data breaches only get reported by major news outlets when the target is a large…

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The Rise of DNS Hijacking and How to Avoid It | EC-Council Official Blog

The Rise of DNS Hijacking and How to Avoid It | EC-Council Official Blog

Recent years have seen the re-emergence of a type of threat that many of us in the cyber-security industry ha…

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Comparing 3 open source databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQLite

Comparing 3 open source databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQLite

In the world of modern enterprise technologies, open source software has firmly established itself as one of …

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What is DNS Cache Poisoning (and How To Prevent It)

What is DNS Cache Poisoning (and How To Prevent It)

GlobalSign Privacy Policy Version 3.1 Updated June 5, 2018 GlobalSign respects your right to privacy. This pr…

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How To Clean A Hacked Installation of Nginx | Acunetix

How To Clean A Hacked Installation of Nginx | Acunetix

There are literally hundreds of ways to secure & solidify a Nginx server after an attack. But, what does it R…

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The Data Analytics Fallacies Your Team Is Treating as Best Practices

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By Samuel Bocetta Verified
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Whether we like to admit it or not, the cleanest dashboards often carry the messiest assumptions. Numbers line up, charts tell a coherent story, and suddenly everyone feels like they’re looking at the truth instead of interpretation. That confidence spreads fast. It moves from the data team into product, marketing, leadership, until it hardens into a strategy that no one wants to question. Most analytics mistakes never announce themselves.
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Data Catalogs Haven’t Failed: You Just Implemented Them Like It’s 2019

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By Samuel Bocetta Verified
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Every couple of years, the data world picks a scapegoat. Right now, it’s the data catalog. Teams that spent months rolling one out are quietly shelving it, and the hot take machine has decided that catalogs are dead weight. But here’s what’s actually happening: Most organizations treated their catalog like a glorified spreadsheet with better branding. They dumped metadata into it, sent a company-wide Slack message saying “go use this,” and then wondered why nobody did. The tool didn’t fail you.
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Your Data Strategy Isn’t Ready for 2026’s AI, and Neither Is Anyone Else’s

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By Samuel Bocetta Verified
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Every enterprise on the planet thinks they’ve got a data strategy. They’ve got the slide decks, the data governance frameworks, the quarterly reviews where someone says “data-driven” 14 times. And yet, most of these strategies were built for a world where AI was a novelty project tucked inside one team’s roadmap. That world doesn’t exist anymore. AI in 2026 demands something fundamentally different from your data infrastructure, your talent, and your organizational patience. The uncomfortable truth?
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I wrote for a fly fishing magazine. Fly fishing is one of my favorite hobbies.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes of course!

How is social media changing news?

Social media isn't changing news, it IS the news. "Solo-reporters" with their own personal news stations (re: brands) *are* the news today.