Category: deep thoughts

testing, 1, 2, 3, oopsie!

Last week, an experiment conducted by Duke University and the European RIPE Network Control Center got a little bit out of hand, interrupting Internet traffic…

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giving away the plans to the fort?

OK, call me a cold war relic, but I find the recent revelation that Microsoft has provided the source code for Windows, SQL Server, and…

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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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no fear?

Another tidbit from Josh Corman’s excellent talk on FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) in the information security industry… the following comes from Frank Herbert’s Dune…

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when was the last time we retired a security control?

This weekend, I attended the Security B-Sides Boston conference  (which, by the way, I heartily recommend to all info sec types).  My favorite session of the…

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the magnets made me do it!

Can human morality be manipulated with magnetism?   According to some scientists from some rather august institutions, yes. It seems that when a particular region of…

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