Curiosity in Practice
This morning I was out running some errands and NPR had an interview with a David Sklansky a poker player who wrote a book called “The Theory Of Poker” and he said the most important thing to remember about poker is that: Poker Is Fundamentally A Battle Of Mistakes That quote stuck with me all day … Read more
I have a mentor who sends me a motivational quote a couple of times a week and today he dropped this on me: If you’re the smartest person in the room, then you need to find another room. I have heard that quote before and actually used it in an opening slide of a talk … Read more
Earlier today I was reading this article on Rollingstone.com about how FXX plans to show all 552 episodes of The Simpson’s this August and noticed when I copied anything from the website it appends a link and copyright notice. That got me thinking about what else could be appended to copied text and how bad … Read more
So you want to be a Twitter security expert? I have come up with an easy to follow list to make sure you are: All Cons, All The Time!If you are not tweeting about flying to, attending, partying at, or flying home from a con at least once a month you cant be a security … Read more
Dear Windows XP, So this is how it feels to feel abandoned? That is the question you have to be asking yourself this morning. For the last 4549 days you have been a constant workhorse for PCs around the world and this morning Microsoft has decided that you are no longer worthy of support. I … Read more
Twitter added a photo tagging feature today and like Facebook decided to have the default setting to allow anyone to tag you. For your own saftey you should change it to this: The steps to do this are easy: 1) Login to Twitter.com 2) Go to the Settings tab.3) Go to the Security tab.4) Under … Read more
My favorite conference asked the following question this morning: #44CON QOTW: If you could watch two hacker films the night before 44CON what would they be? Just erm asking — 44CON (@44CON) March 24, 2014 My answer was the noncontroversial WarGames and the controversial The Goonies. My friend Steve Lord asks the question that inspired … Read more
Today I had a “Classic Jerry” moment and had a pen explode as I was spinning it around in a meeting. This was the aftermath: Afterwards I post the exact same same stats to my FaceBook and Twitter account: “My pen broke while I spinning it around in a meeting it ruined my shirt and … Read more
This is what it is like anytime I am asked to search someone’s computer.
I had a chance last night to speak to the Central Missouri Foster Care and Adoption Association about social media and social media security. My opening question was simple: What does social media and hammers have in common? The two main points of my talk were the following: My first point was:You wouldn’t give your … Read more