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EEE PC Redux

December 31, 2009by gorrie 3 Comments

My EEE PC 901 was great. The only problem was that I couldn’t stand the keyboard and so our romance ended abruptly. This made me sad, so it was banished […]

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Technology

Swamp Computing

December 28, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

Tired of reading yet another cloud security article? This is really the only one you need to read. If you don’t have the attention span to read it all, read […]

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Information Security, Internet

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

December 22, 2009by gorrie Leave a comment

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 […]

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Information Security

Motorcycles

December 20, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

I haven’t publicly or completely told the story of my particular flavor of urban nomadism (the first definition). I’ll get around to it eventually, but motorcycles are a decent run-up […]

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Biographical, Travel

Comcast Wimax

December 20, 2009by gorrie 1 Comment

via clear.com Thinking about getting the new Comcast Highspeed2Go Wimax offering? I was as well since when bundled with home internet service, it’s pretty cheap. Comcast is rebranding and reselling […]

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Internet

Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes, Drones

December 17, 2009by gorrie Leave a comment

Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to […]

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Information Security

Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage

December 14, 2009by gorrie 3 Comments

The folks who run Amazon’s EC2 cloud service must be happy the week is nearly over. The cloud-based EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) was kept jumping this past week by two […]

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Information Security

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

Local Game Shops

December 8, 2009by gorrie 2 Comments

High quality local geek shops are hard to find in Seattle. I have been accustomed in the past to running out to the local hardcore lair to pick up some […]

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Gaming

Ian Gorrie Social Engineering HOWTO

November 5, 2009by gorrie 2 Comments

Here are things I like. If you talk to me about these things, I’ll likely think you’re cool. People I like or have liked: Joe Rogan Chris Rock Patton Oswalt […]

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