Monthly Archives: April 2008

The encrypted traveler

As border enforcement as using increasingly invasive tactics, a traveler that has any privacy concerns for the data that they are carrying (especially if visiting the United States) will very likely take steps to protect themselves.
Examples:
FindLaw:

The Ninth Circuit, in a decision announced this summer, has approved forensic searches of laptop computers at the border, even [...]

Why I hate BlackBerries

I have been working hard to avoid Blackberries of all kinds having seen sales people (who if you ask anyone who works with technology, they will tell you that people in sales push for the worst solutions available almost all the time) fiddle with them for years.

They never quite worked right.
Their voice quality sucked.
They’re a [...]

AT&T hates their customers

Every time I have an interaction with AT&T wireless, it is an agonizing and drawn out horror of an experience. Because I know this, I only call then when absolutely necessary. Basically this is when they break things and I need to figure out why my stuff is busted.
I spent about four hours on the [...]

My talk at Seattle Toorcon 2008

I gave a little talk this weekend at the second Seattle Toorcon.
My presentation is as follows, though as usual, I ad lib when presenting. Video may appear in the future.