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Trust architecture
Inventing technologies that allow us to change behavior at scale in populations for the better - TED talk Nicholas Christakis ( Read more... ) -
Travel advisories for Russia
Canada says: exercise a high degree of caution due to crime, explosions on the St Petersburg metro on 3 April 2017. Crime against foreigners is a serious problem. Some victims have died. Kidnapping for ransom is also common. Exercise extreme caution in crowds and places frequented by skinhead groups, including open markets. Violent crime is ( Read more... ) -
Forbes: car hacking hype?
A good article on Forbes, Congress, '60 Minutes' Exaggerate Threat Of Car Hacking brings together the Markey report with a lot more information from Jalopnik etc. -
RSA Conference 2015
The RSA Security Conference has accepted my talk on Rapid Threat Modeling Techniques, April 20 - 24, 2015, in San Francisco! This will be my first time speaking at RSA, but I always enjoyed it back in the days when I used to go as an attendee. -
Surveillance and Espionage in a Free Society
We are concerned with the survival of individual freedom in the United States. We are concerned with the freedom of the United States to survive. The problem we address is the maintenance of the two simultaneously and harmoniously, for a critical paradox can exist whereby the effort to maintain the one may jeopardize the other. Today’s threat, ( Read more... ) -
Marcus Ranum's take on Mein Kloudf
I asked you if it was SECURE! You told me we could save a lot of money but I asked if it was SECURE! You said, 'even Mussolini is going to the cloud with his MP3 collection'. Risk Assessment... your 'Risk Assessment' is toilet paper! Your 'compensating controls' couldn't even stop Stalin's script kiddies! You said there was a '.4 risk'!! What ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Contentment
Theology possesses a vain-gloriousness which places its faith in human theories; but science, at its best, is humble before nature herself. It has no thesis to defend: it is content to kneel upon the earth, in the way of my friend, the old professor, and ask the simplest questions, hoping for some true reply ( Read more... ) -
My son the chicken
Looking at the Detroit Science Center website to decide if the dinosaur exhibit will be any good, read "Ask your young child what they want to be when they grow up. Although this may seem a silly question to ask a 3 year old, reinforcing the expression of individual interests helps your child develop a healthy sense of self ( Read more... ) -
Sears Grills for Cannibals
Last August Sears was using URL data to define categories on their website (explanation for web programmers and security geeks here) and some customers who were probably trying to figure out ways to game the cart/checkout system and get cheap prices (a very common attack) figured out that they could get it to show a page with a funny category title ( Read more... ) -
Manage sexy projects
- Seek out projects with any of the following words in its description:
o Multimedia, Worldwide, Advance, Strategic, Revenue, Market, Technology, Rapid, Competitive.
- Avoid projects with any of the following words in its description:
o Accounting, Operations, Reduction, Budget, Quality, Analysis.
The worth of any project ( Read more... )