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A review of Liars and Outliers by Bruce Schneier
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Some SO beta sucesses monitoring home lab network
Having all but wrapped up my studies of SEC 503 and stealing a few hours from SEC 401 (teaching it Tuesday nights) and Liar and Outliers (reading a review copy) this afternoon I made good progress with Security Onion 12.04 beta which I've been fooling around with on the lab network at home.
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Mountain Goat post-upgrade installs and fun
Mac Installs post-Mountain Goat upgrade
These are some things you (I) need to install on a new Mac these days to get any work done. Mostly these used to be installed, in the installer, or available on the install disc but now you have to fetch them all yourself.
XCode
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Media Consumption Update (MCU), Oct 2012
Movies: Loopers was excellent, on par with Inception and On Time for good entertaining movies with actual plots and thought provocation. In a completely different way the new Dredd and Resident Evil movies were quite entertaining and all the more so because they almost entirely lacked a plot or any provocation to thinking -- in fact the blessedly ( Read more... ) -
The HOA president emerges
ETA: He responded, though I won't paste it in here without some less-simple edits, and it developed into a pretty interesting thread. It remains to be seen if we will be able to relate ( Read more... ) -
Project Sputnik: Mission update T+10 days
All decks report smooth sailing so far. This ship is really fast. The Ubuntu 12 seems fine and I'm starting to get used to Unity, such that I haven't replaced it. There's a bit of a rant about how much nicer this all is that recent Apple kit that I can't argue with much over on O'Reilly Radar. Once you get used to Unity1 (or replace it with ( Read more... ) -
Project Sputnik deployment first impressions
I've volunteered for #ProjectSputnik, an effort to make a developer-friendly build available on a Dell laptop. The Project has done quite well from surveys and inital software forays and a product will be released later this year, we are told, on the lovely new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook.
So given the opportunity to help out I bought one, am running ( Read more... ) -
57,600 bps!
Serious work going on here: http://etherpad.openstack.org/defconbadge
Win/Lin/Mac software/driver for badge board: http://www.parallaxsemiconductor.com/software#Downloads
115200 bps:
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Hi y'all from Atlanta
Hi everyone,
I have always been a tinker or tester (as my parents would no doubt agree) and favour a scientific outlook (experiments, hypothesis, proof) on most things. It may be only little surprising then that I have always been interested in and now work in information security. Which could be characterized as showing people how to break their ( Read more... ) -
H.R. 347
An email to my alleged representative, Congressman John Lewis, (D)
What were you thinking in not speaking out against this bill which many are concerned is designed to specifically outlaw lawful and important protests in cities and near conventions? How did this sail through without notice and make its way to the president for signature?
Your ( Read more... )