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more-on-de-perimeterization
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Having just posted on de-perimeterization, I thought that this quote from Scott Borg of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit on the consequences of breaches:
"We started seeing huge vulnerabilities," Borg said Wednesday at the GovSec conference in Washington, where the draft document was released. Most of the systems were compliant with current security checklists and best practices. "And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines," susceptible to being outflanked.
burn-your-money
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Seriously. And I'm not just mindlessly following the advice of Mojo Nixon. I'm saying it based on the fact:
- Pentagon report warns Canadian coins bugged
- And nobody would buy such a half-hearted, anonymous denial: “We have no evidence to indicate anything connected with these coins poses a risk or danger.” Yeah, to us tracking you.
- An ongoing research project into the detection of illicit drug use has shown that of a sample of bank notes in current circulation in the greater Dublin area - €5, €10, €20 and €50 denominations - 100% of them showed contamination with cocaine. Though perhaps on this one they should double check the researchers hands. And noses.
a-total-eclipse-of-rational-thought
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Certain passengers on a Paris-Mauritius flight felt threatened and endangered by Bonnie Tyler singing her hit song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and have sued Air France. Here is the story on UPI (hat tip to View From the top.
password-list-stored-on-usb-disks-allows-feds-to
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
It looks as though there was one admin, Wilson, who was cooperating with the feds and had the portable drives. Decrypting the mail resulted in the arrest of two other sys admins. Wilson thought he had deleted all the passwords to thwart the FBI. The investigation is part of a political corruption probe. See the full story in the Philly Inquirer
zdnet-looks-back-at-mcnealy
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
ZDNet has a video of some of Scott McNealy's jabs at Microsoft. While they don't strike me as some of his funniest, I really like that it is sponsored by Microsoft.
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