Archive for the 'Security and Fraud' Category

An Open Letter to the Boston Police . . .

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Are you that f@$king stupid? Seriously . . . a little lighted sign being mistaken for a BOMB?!?!
Now come on . . . what’s this “hoax device” b^llsh!t that you’re spreading? Can’t find a real law to enforce to justify this screwup?
There’s a problem with your charges of placing a hoax device . [...]

UPS Policy Is Security Theater

Friday, January 5th, 2007

While standing in line at the local UPS Customer Center (a story I’ll recount latter), I noticed a sign on the counter that read “A government issued photo id is required when shipping or picking up a package at a UPS Customer Center”. More security theater I’m afraid.
While I can understand the checking of [...]

Identity Theft: UC Data Breach

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Looks like the University of California has had another database breach, this time impacting nearly 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff. Interestingly, it appears to the investigators that the Social Security Number (SSN) and other Personal Identity Information (PII) was specifically targeted in the breach.
CNN has an article on their site: “Hacker [...]

If you’ve ever wondered why . . .

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

I post here so infrequently and with little personal information . . . this posting sums it up nicely. Many postings sit nearly finished in my drafts box because I am unable to find a way to convey my thoughts while keeping some semblance of privacy and security . . . sigh. Something [...]

DefCon14

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Seriously . . . do your fire marshall walkthrough the day BEFORE you are supposed to open the conference. 2 hours after the scheduled start time, we’re still waiting for the conference to open . . .
las vegas, defcon14

Great Apple Ads . . .

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Apple just released two great television ads for the Macintosh . . . these are great!
Ad 1 and Ad 2 Via YouTube

And people wonder why I carry my PowerMac around to security conferences
EDIT: Looks like the official Apple site has all six ads . . . Â
mac, marketing, microsoft, security, [...]


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