Archive for August, 2003

PGP: Why isn’t it more widely used?

Preamble: Today was my last day at FSC Internet but I started writing the piece below some time ago. It still needs some work, so it’ll probably get a few more edits as time goes along, but I wanted to post it up here to mark the day I left the field of Internet security. [...]

a few parting words on security

After four months I am leaving FSC Internet to get back into the field of software development. While security is interesting, it, like many things, is only interesting to me if I don’t have to do it full-time.

This doesn’t mean that I’ll stop weighing in on security matters. Heck no. I have a few parting [...]

California Gubernatorial Race

Now that the California gubernatorial race has turned into a complete circus sideshow, with both Arnold Schwarznegger and Larry Flynt of Hustler running, I’m suggesting that Darl McBride should mount a campaign, as well. Since the state of California isn’t doing so well financially, he can mount frivolous lawsuits against other states in an attempt [...]

Linux is for Bitches

Pardon the slight profanity; I don’t generally like to swear when I’m trying to make a point, but I didn’t invent the name of this site.

The views espoused by the author are obviously not much different from those in this excellent article in USENIX’s own journal, ;login:. (You’ll need to be a member to access [...]

SCO

I’m just waiting for SCO to declare itself in violation of its own trademarks, and sue itself.

TicketMaster’s Privacy Policy is a joke.

Ed Foster pointed out in a recent GripeLog entry that TicketBastard’s privacy policy is a complete joke. To paraphrase the point of the article: If you have ever bought a ticket from TicketBastard, they have reserved the right to sell all your personal information to their "Partners" and they specifically state in their privacy policy [...]

FoundStone marketing weasels

If you get the Daily Dave newsletter run by Dave Aitel over at Immunity, Inc. you’ll already have seen this. In a recent message he pointed listmembers to an internal FoundStone memo forwarded to that fantastic site, InternalMemos.Com.

I really will just let that memo stand on its own. There’s hardly anything to add but to [...]

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