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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

Bored on a plane: Gogo wireless on Virgin America

June 5, 2009by gorrie 5 Comments

I was looking forward to trying out some in-flight wifi on my flight to E3 today. Sadly, I have personal reservations about paying $10 for an hour worth of internet. […]

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Information Security, Technology, Travel

Big Tech Wins: Calendars

April 22, 2009by gorrie 2 Comments

So that covers how I have made my contacts sane and available. What about calendars? I have a bit of a complicated life, so I have a few different types […]

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Management

Nero support calls their competition “a rootkit”

April 22, 2009by gorrie Leave a comment

Someone came to me recently because Nero, a company that makes DVD burning and imaging software, said that the reason their software was not functioning well was because a rootkit […]

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Troubleshooting

Snort resources

April 2, 2009by gorrie Leave a comment

Sourcefire has some great free webcasts available for people to become familiar or freshen up on their knowledge of Snort. This is particularly valuable for a few reasons. First is […]

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Information Security, Technology

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

The vacation laptop: ASUS EEE PC 901

August 31, 2008by gorrie 2 Comments

So I went and picked up a 0day piece of hardware. The ASUS EEE PC 901. Since it’s so new, it’s not very well supported. Even the new chipset ethernet […]

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Linux, Technology

Downtown for Linux

July 23, 2008by gorrie Leave a comment

I had the pleasure of attending one of the GSLUG [Greater Seattle Linux Users Group] on the 12th. I was really surprised at the quality of the event. Allow me […]

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Linux

Amazon downtime

June 10, 2008by gorrie Leave a comment

There was recent news about how Amazon was down for two hours. Speculation runs rampant on cnet about the cause: “It doesn’t seem to be the result of a network-initiated […]

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Management, Technology

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