Encrypted IM
Today Nate turned me on to Off-The-Record Messaging. It’s a plugin for encrypting IM traffic. They have a proxy server version (that’s still beta I ...
Tag: Security
I got hacked
It would appear that some nasty hackers found a hole in one of my web applications on Fathers Day. The first indication of trouble was that my SSH connections s...
The Nexus Of Politics And Terror
On Monday night’s “Countdown” Keith Olbermann updates his disturbing timeline of how the Bush Administration has strategically used terrorism ...
TSA Security Training Skit
This is pretty much how I imagine the TSA training sessions operate. (h/t to Bruce Schneier)
You to can own your own 128 Bit number
From BoingBoing: In effect, AACS-LA (the AACS Licensing Authority) claimed that it owned a randomly chosen 128-bit number, and that anyone who possessed or tran...
Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do
A useful writeup over at O’Reilly about the top 7 things that sysadmins forget to do: Forgetting to Delete a Former User’s Account Forgetting to Reg...
Stop The Big Brother State
Stop the Big Brother State is an excellent video by David Scharf about the surveillance society that we are becoming and why it is bad.
CYA Security
Bruce Schneier has an excellent column on “Cover Your Ass” security, which is pretty much all the airline and homeland security BS. Since 9/11, we&#...
RSA Conference Codebreakers Bash
I’m at the RSA Security Conference this week and tonight was the Codebreakers Bash – a huge party. This conference spares no expense. It’s the...
More Homeland Security Nonsense
Homeland Security run amuck. FedEx refused to ship this persons containers even though they were *empty*. The reason they were refused was because of the words ...