Month: May 2010

some thoughts on Memorial Day

For most of us, Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer, or a day off, or a shopping day.  But let’s take a moment…

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is your browser going to rat you out?

Your browser is a dirty stinkin rat.  There… I said it.  According to research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), most browsers have telltale…

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terabits (and risks) under the sea

Satellites get all the glamor with their showy rocket liftoffs and space shuttle missions, but in reality, over 99% of intercontinental data traffic travels via…

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it’s (not always) nice to share…

Now that Facebook has made their privacy settings just a bit less complex than, say, the US Tax Code or particle physics, now would be…

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i (helped to) discover a new asteroid!

Over the past few days, I have been on Mount Lemmon in Arizona attending Astronomy Camp.  I’ll give you a couple of seconds to stop…

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i’m invincible! (you’re a looney!)

We security professionals tend to underestimate our own vulnerability to threats like phishing. Here is a really good article by Cory Doctorow, who is most…

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NerdCation 1 – Titan Missile Silo Museum

As a child of the cold war, nuclear armageddon was one of the major boogeymen which haunted my dreams. Well, yesterday, I got a chance…

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WhereFi? ThereFi!

Here’s a handy resource for the busyness traveler… the HotelChatter 2010  Hotel WiFi Report lets you know where you can score free WiFi during your…

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massachusetts kicks data protection butt!

Now I have two things which I really like about Massachussets – The Friendly Toast in Cambridge (mmm… Caribbean waffles) and their new data protection…

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