I took a much needed vacation the latter part of last week. Prior to that, I was helping a few coworkers with getting PHP Web Applications developed on Fedora Core 5 to run on CentOS 5 with upgraded PHP, Apache, and libraries. Every time I work with PHP, it gives me serious perspective [...]
Tagged perl, perl5, phpJust a little comic to remind ourselves what we’re giving away for “Security.” This is not what our founding fathers had in mind. I’m disappointed in the US Government and it’s people.
Tagged security hypocrisyGizmodo is stepping up to declare March, Boycott the RIAA Month.
This needs to happen. Justice must be swift and unrelenting. Back when the RIAA conned Metallica to lead the charge against Napster, they killed a significant portion of the internet. I’d go as far as to blame them for being the catalyst [...]
So, I’ve had this domain for 7 years now. The concept behind the name goes back even further than that. In highschool in 1997, our AP Calculus teacher made the mistake of getting backed into a corner when displaying a graph of f(x)=1/x.
You see, the graph approaches positive infinity as you approach zero [...]
Tagged error, mathBruce Schneier has an interesting comment thread going.
There’s also a new movie coming out called “Catch a Fire” that deals with what happens when you torture the wrong people. Turns out, you pissed them off and they tend to seek retribution.
Hard to imagine anything could go wrong with this Administration allowed to define “curel [...]
This article goes right for the juggular. The sad fact is, he’s not off by much.
America is all but lost. I hope this pisses you off. Careful with your disgust and anger, misguided and it will seal our fate.
If you’re an American citizen, you should hang your head low today. The US Senate has passed the torture bill. Over at Bruce Schneier’s blog, there’s some interesting discussion on the matter. Torture is wrong. Military tribunals are biased. See this entry on Emergent Chaos. We’re throwing centuries of progress [...]
Tagged politicsAs you may or may not know, I am gainfully employed by the Federal Government in the area of Information Security. Recently the Bush Administration responded to media hype to issue a Federal Mandate requiring all government owned laptops use encryption technologies to encrypt their data.
There are two interpretations of this memo.
Encrypt the ENTIRE [...]
Tagged dumb, fde, management, policy, securityBruce Schneier always has spot-on posts. Here’s his editorial on last week’s terror plots.
It’s really that simple. Stop being terrorized. Stop being scared to live. Stop taking life so seriously, you’re never gonna make it out alive. We don’t need billions of dollars of security screening software/hardware. Anyone with [...]