So I caved and succumbed to the lameness of Twitter mostly for the purposes of attending and coordinating things at large events. It’ll be hard to flow of people and places at events like Defcon without it.
Mostly I view twitter as a noise application. It posts “microblogging,” a term which people with near zero attention [...]
Category Archives: Internet
Twitter, Defcon, Geotaging
July 23, 2008 – 5:25 pm
The DNS Drama
July 23, 2008 – 1:03 am
Dan’s Seattle Toorcon 0day keeps going and going and going and going.
If you’re looking for details, the details that were leaked, confirmed, retracted, and denied, here’s a description and a mirror.
So if you run your own DNS, upgrade already as you should have some time ago when you were first told to do so.
Perhaps I [...]
New Facebook private features
March 19, 2008 – 10:35 am
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, [...]
Software liability
December 22, 2007 – 8:17 am
Another perennial topic that seems to come up whenever I am speaking to someone who is a consumer of technology. If they are one of the people that I actually bore with some of the details about what I do, it isn’t uncommon for me to talk about their individual concerns about internet security and [...]
Bruce Schneier Facts
December 6, 2007 – 9:54 am
It is always great when people make old memes new again. Like the Chuck Norris Facts morphing into a way more entertaining Bruce Schneier meme.
I guess someone noticed that the beard was a fit, so now some guys in the UK are selling these shirts and providing an endless amount of Bruce Schneier Facts.
These guys [...]
Web2.0 and history recurring
November 24, 2007 – 10:05 pm
It is a new Web 2.0 economy! All the rules have changed!
Yeah. Sure they have. Right.
It’s the same shell game of no revenue that everyone has played before. Actually, I think it’s a little worse this time.
It is worse because companies like Google, and everyone else because of them, are over-valued in the extreme.
These companies [...]
Internet Payments
November 19, 2007 – 6:39 am
I had the pleasure of setting up an online payment system that had the following goals
Point and click payments available by url
Not dealing with the complications of handling credit cards directly
Email invoicing
Lowest transaction and recurring fees possible
Add to this the very well known problems with the way Paypal does business, specifically with sellers, and I [...]
Facebook and privacy revisited
November 18, 2007 – 4:01 am
Like I have talked about before with Google and as Laurance Lessig discussed in his talk at the University of Washington, public companies are established with one goal. … Some of his talk entitled “Is Google (2008) Microsoft (1998)” is available here:
Calendaring without Outlook
October 5, 2007 – 5:24 pm
Since then, at the time it was Mozilla’s combined email and web client, Thunderbird has done a great job with the internal PKI signed Microsoft encrypted mail (send by some in the consulting companies of which I have been a member) and many other tasks that have given other mailers problems.To solve my problem, the following solution to this calendaring problem can be found with Lightning and Provider.Even though Lightning is still a bit clunky, it is workable for properly formatting Outlook responses.With Provider, you can sync your calendar data with a google calendar…. One thing to keep in mind here is that google calendar is public world facing information, so take some time to think about if this works for the implementation you are considering.If the google calendar information isn’t clear enough, there are many other references that offer more screen captures and details.
Shamed
September 19, 2007 – 9:43 am
A perfect case of what not to do to internet people.
Do not steal their equipment with a pal, for example.
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