Current events have put into keen focus the balancing act between privacy, data controls, the reason secrets are kept, and ethics.
So if you haven’t had an interest in Wikileaks, related individuals, the classified information that was leaked to them, and the people that did it, let’s get you caught up.
First, I would suggest the long New [...]
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 requirements [...]
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
Zero For 0wned The “Industry check” section
H Security All Around My (Black) Hat
CNN Technology Hanging with hackers can [...]
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 identity [...]
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 all [...]
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