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Unintentional games

November 6, 2010by gorrie 2 Comments

For all the hype and declarations of world-changingness that have been made about mobile technology, social networks, the new hype sounds a lot like the old hype.  Only the drastic […]

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Business, Privacy, Technology

Secrets, Wikileaks, and Hacktivism

June 18, 2010by gorrie 5 Comments

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, […]

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Information Security, Politics

Threats, Threat Modeling and Analysis

May 21, 2010by gorrie 3 Comments

This is a super high level presentation about basic threat modeling, SDL, and why a proactive stance is better than a reactive. I thought that it was fun. Threats, Threat […]

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Information Security, Presentations

The Art of Keeping Things Done

April 9, 2010by gorrie 11 Comments

The current field of information security is largely one of arcana, vagueness, arbitrary views, philosophy, mountaintop sages, a general lack of reliable data, and legions of vendors selling “best practices.” […]

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Information Security, Presentations

Public and Private

February 22, 2010by gorrie Leave a comment

In this brave new internet world (as of about 1995), I’ve been thinking of my personal information sharing generally as public and private. Information Classification Because of my work, classifying […]

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Biographical, Internet

Monopoly Customer Service

February 12, 2010by gorrie 2 Comments

After a few years of avoiding the cable industry, I went ahead and signed up for Comcast Highspeed2Go, a new bundled service where they resell Clearwire and combine it with […]

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Business, Internet

The Politics of Respect

February 12, 2010by gorrie Leave a comment

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 […]

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Business, Information Security, Politics

Specialists, Generalists, Incompetence, and Cognitive Bias

January 24, 2010by gorrie 3 Comments

I wanted to continue a bit where I left off with a non-technical explanation of what people such as myself do and my commentary on evolving technology management. Here is […]

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Information Security

Agile Infosec

January 23, 2010by gorrie 1 Comment

This is a reprint of my comment to a Joshua Corman’s posting on The Fudsec Blog. Consider going there to read his article and the discussion that followed. I can’t […]

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Information Security

New Nettiqute: A simple guide to communicating with your favorite geeks.

January 20, 2010by gorrie 4 Comments

It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen an updated guide on email etiquette or netiquette in general. This may be because there is about 300 guides written by out […]

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