The WiKID Blog

The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

the-anti-terrorist-hotline-report-me-right-away

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

I was wandering around aimlessly at a store with 10 bags of spring fertlizer for my yard talking on one of my 5 cellular devices trying to explain to expain to a clerk that I go by my middle name, not my first name, thinking about how suspicious it was that my credit card was actually accepted when it occurred to me that if I lived in Manchester, I would surely have been reported to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline whose motto is "“You don’t have to be sure. If you suspect it, report it.”

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my-state-equals-the-nanny-state

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Well, there is still time to stop the stupidest bill in recent memory: Senate Bill 59, which would require a "social networking site" to notify parents before children create a page on their service.

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appease-the-gods-of-identity-by-buying-wikid-or-at

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Great article on the New York Times site about the psychology of insurance.

So when we think about passing up flight insurance, we conjure up disaster just as easily as ancient Greeks imagined a thunderbolt from Olympus, and we too figure we can avert it through the equivalent of a bull sacrifice. Intuitively, we haven’t made great strides since Homer’s day. But at least our gods take credit cards.