Curiosity in Practice
This afternoon a “hacker” decided to text bomb my phone with about 1000 text messages asking me to paypal him $100 to stop. A couple of things: I don’t negotiate with terrorists. (I always wanted to say that.). Part of the text bomb gave me information on how it was happening. After getting a couple … Read more
Meet the Capello Sleep & Charge Dual Alarm Clock with Night Light sold exclusively by Target. It works fairly adequate as a: USB Charging Station Alarm Clock Radio Night Light(?) Why I hate it is this button right here: This “DST” button is .25" away from the snooze button, .2" away from the source and … Read more
I was having a conversation about security today with a good friend and the subject came up of what is the most difficult question in security to answer? After a few minutes of back and we fourth we settled on the following question: Who would want to hack us? This question is nearly always asked … Read more
I am going to whack the ball the over the fence. That was my four year olds response when I reminded him that his first T-Ball game was later that day as I woke him up. I love my son but he spent 80% of his first and only T-Ball practice trying to make the … Read more
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