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Seattle Infosec calendar
I searched and didn’t find a Seattle-specific Information Security calendar showing not only conferences, but smaller security events. So I created a new public one. And I guess that means now …
What can we learn from the ZRTPCPP / Silent Circle debacle?
07:00 As a way of background, Phil Zimmerman’s company Silent Circle became wildly successful recently after Snowden’s disclosures of extensive NSA data collection of telephony …
Mountain Lion Easter Egg References Debut Of Original Apple Macintosh
How clever. I just noticed this today. Mountain Lion easter egg references debut of original Apple Macintosh: Mountain Lion easter egg references debut of original Apple Macintosh Incomplete downloads …
Ross Anderson Response About Payments System Weakness
“You complain that our work may undermine public confidence in the payments system. What will support public confidence in the payments system is evidence that the banks are frank and honest in …
Devaluing Harassment
I’ve been taken aback lately by a variety of claims on blogs and twitter of someone “harassing” someone else or “stalking” them. People seem to throw these words out so …
Beautiful Life Diary To Cultivate Happiness
From the book 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman, this is a list of writing topics that you can do over the course of a week – spending just 59 seconds each day – to cultivate happiness. And …
Christmas Car Break In
Ugh. Came out this morning to my car in my driveway to go downtown and found both right-side windows rolled down. Hmmm… I didn’t do that. Go around to the driver’s side and both of …
Abc News Poll On Tsa Scanners Misleading
So, ABC news polled 514 people by telephone to try to find out if people support the new backscatter x-ray machines. They are reporting now that people support them “2 to 1” over those …
Google Voice Chat Qos
I’ve been looking for QoS pointers for Google Voice Chat. I’ve found that it works great on my DSL until I also am attending a web conference over Webex at the same time. Then I can still …
Favorite New Android Apps
Call Block Unlimited: https://www.appbrain.com/app/com.mrnumber.blocker Highly configurable app that lets you set policies for how to handle incoming calls. I used this when on vacation to send all …