Month: June 2010
truecrypt (and good passwords) 1, fbi 0
Looks like open source disk encryption software TrueCrypt has shown its mettle in a cybercrime case out of Brazil. The Brazilian police seized 500 TrueCrypt…
babies – can’t trust them
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a “kid person.” To me, all babies (except for YOURS, of course) look like the offspring…
slicing the salami in the 21st century
According to an interesting story at Wired’s Danger Room blog, the FTC has filed a lawsuit against a number of “John Doe” defendants who stole…
public enemy #1 – the sun?
The subtitle of this blog promises reading to keep you up at night… so, here goes… aside from creating hot weather and giving us skin…
what happens in vegas gets blogged in vegas
End of July? Vegas? Security folk and shady folk in one place? Stifling heat? You know I’m there… (If anyone points out that “it’s a…
porn, economics, and security (but mostly porn)
As we all know, the Internet is a series of tubes invented by Al Gore to allow us to exchange cute cat pictures and pornography….
iFail – Apple drops the security ball – again
If you ask people in my office what they hate about me, one of the items that is sure to show up on quite a…