The Politics of Respect

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 [...]

Federal Data Breach Bill (H.R. 2221) Passes House

H.R. 2221 defines personal information as, “an individual’s first name or initial and last name, or address, or phone number, in combination with any 1 or more of the following data elements for that individual:

(i) Social Security number
(ii) Driver’s license number or other State identification number
(iii) Financial account number, or credit or [...]

The Trials of Toorcamp

Toorcamp was many things this year.

It was fun.

It was uncomfortable.

Dustdevils ate things occasionally.

It was turbulent due to the trouble with Levitate to get hackers to help promote their event for free or they wouldn’t fulfill their agreement to let us use the missile facility for talks and workshops.

There was some excellent music.

There were fine people [...]

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.

ITCi 2007

This is the presentation that I gave earlier this week at the ITCi Conference in San Diego, California. It was well received and fostered a lot of interesting discussion.

My recording of the event on my laptop had enough problems as to be distracting, so I gave up on using it to export a real-time presentation. [...]