Category: deep thoughts
is the news toxic?
This is a really well written critique of our addiction to the news. According to the author, “News is bad for your health. It…
rsa 2013 – is crypto getting less important?
An interesting thought from Adi Shamir at #RSAC Cryptographers Panel… Cryptography has been becoming **less** important over the last few years. When you wanted to…
sharks versus cows
OK – what are you more afraid of – sharks or cows? Well, according to the folks at Popular Mechanics (via blog Boing Boing), it…
gimme some of that old time religion (and malware)
According to a recent study by security firm Symantec, you are far more likely to encounter malware when visiting religious web sites than when visiting,…
you are lied to between 10 and 200 times per day
According to LieSpotting author Pamela Meyer, we live in a sea of deception, lying and being lied to dozens if not hundreds of times per…
elephant repellent
Sometimes I feel like I’m selling elephant repellent: I identify a particular species of elephant (for example, compromise of our networks due to spearphish delivered…
telex to freedom / telex to chaos
When I read about Telex, a research project aimed at making it easier to get past Internet censorship, my “split personality” – lover of freedom…
pulling the plug on 21st century mobs?
OK… I have no problem with police departments (such as those in New York City and London) setting up units to look at (public) social…
my brain made me do it!
I just got done reading an extremely interesting book recently… Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by Baylor University neuroscientist David Eagleman. Eagleman’s hypothesis is…
here… have a pill… what’s the worst that could happen?
Spear phishing has been in the news quite a bit lately – it seems like just about all of the recent high profile hacks began…
RSS - Posts