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There is a lot of perennial talk of social engineering and direct project/resource management. Attempts to solve complicated political situations with manipulation or a slick widget tend not to work very well over time. They are not addressing the underlying issue. The wedge of compliance or a mandate from a framework may get some base [...] There has been several published works on the what the media calls hackers, the hacker underground, the information security industry, and the technorati class in general lately. Here are a few: Phrack #63 section 13 The death of the underground 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 [...] I’m surprised that some of these behaviors that I mentioned a year ago haven’t changed. Yesterday many Apple users were installing a system security update. Depending on what article you read, this was either a really huge deal involving “monsters” and giant failures or a snoozefest of local vulnerabilities and not much of an issue at [...] TorrentFreak seems to have the most involved and comprehensive tale of what they contain.This is a great example of people who do some things well getting caught doing things that are not their strengths.If you are going to establish an organization that will become a target for, arguably, some of the worlds most skilled and experienced technophiles, you should plan accordingly.That they were ever outed at all is a failure, but things like this (quoted from digg article) show how if you are untrained, ignorant, or sloppy, it can bring down an entire enterprise:The genius employee of MD subscribed to a torrent site using the gmail account he had setup as an email archive as the username and used the same password for the torrent site as he did for the gmail account…. Price and availability must be correct or it will be circumvented by someone with time on their hands that will make money created by those that can not, or will not, purchase what you are selling in the way you choose to sell it.This is the gist of all of the DRM, piracy, and putting-the-gene-back-in-the-bottle [...] |
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