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Preventing Catastrophe(s)

October 23, 2016by gorrie Leave a comment

Our season is one of the long tail of e-janitorial services left undone and fostering into being a healthy mature criminal ecosystem designed to democratize crime to the point that […]

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Business, Information Security, Technology

Legendary Clue

June 19, 2011by gorrie Leave a comment

I keep thinking about a conversation that I had this last December.  They described people who were ran their servers and infrastructure well as never existing, or if they did, […]

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Business, Information Security

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

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

Contracting and Consulting

December 8, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

So you want to be a consultant or a contractor? When I have told tales of some of the contracts and consultancy gigs I have worked, people think it sounds […]

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Business

What we do

November 4, 2009by gorrie 2 Comments

It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them: These stereotypes are not who I’m going to […]

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Biographical, Business, Information Security, Management

On hackers, maturity, and the international market

August 6, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

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 […]

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Business, Economics, Politics, Technology

Toorcamp: Hacking HR

July 16, 2009by gorrie Leave a comment

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 […]

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Business, Information Security, Management, Presentations

Big Tech Wins: Addressbooks

February 6, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

I find that the best and most immediate use of personal technology for most people is in personal communications. For example, I did not have an organized and comprehensive set […]

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Business, Internet, Phones, Technology

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