There was recent news about how Amazon was down for two hours. Speculation runs rampant on cnet about the cause:
“It doesn’t seem to be the result of a network-initiated attack, at least from my preliminary analysis from our probes,” Ranjan said.
Human error may not sound as gripping a tale as a network attack, but there’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Chris Soghoian made an interesting point in his recent cnet article entitled iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns. My key point of interest here is the following:
Apple’s, and to a degree AT&T, inclination to lock in customers is counter to the current direction of the market. Verizon is opening their cellular network and allowing [...]
Facebook has a worthwhile privacy improvement today. It’s nice to see social networks giving some configurability of granular access to the information that users make available there.
One thing that is not obvious is how to block limited users from information that you would rather not share for whatever reason. The “Limited Profile” blocking is non-intuitive, [...]
As I never bothered to buy a Gamecube, I only played smash brothers with drunk people at college parties and when I visited my cousins a bunch of years ago.
With Super Smash Brothers Brawl now out for Wii, my lack of skill is showing and must be corrected to preserve my nerdly reputation.
What is there [...]
I really enjoy cooking. I like it because eating is a fundamental part of every human life that everyone can appreciate inherently. I also because there is no “correct method” of doing it. There are nearly unlimited variations of preparation, ingredients, and palates.
With all of these variables, I think most people would agree that cooking [...]
I have a new pgp key.
Feel free to sign it at your pgp.net keyserver of choice.
$ gpg –fingerprint FE264BAA
pub 16384R/FE264BAA 2008-01-17 Key fingerprint = 9A05 99DB 838D 9049 0509 AD5D 26A4 2F8A FE26 4BAAsub 16384R/3CA219BB 2008-01-17
Why so big a keysize? A friend of mine cited the following:
NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA [...]
