Trouble

  • Your most important systems are your least secure

    I’ve a larger writing project afoot… putting it down to see how it looked in a different format. zen@trouble.org/2012/Draft Your most important systems are your least secure Here’s an easy one.  Do you think that your most critical computers – the ones that are most important to your company’s health, wealth, and well-being – are…

  • DARPA Redux

    As previously said it looks like I know what I’ll be doing the next few months: working on a DARPA funded project that I submitted to the Cyber Fast Track (CFT) program.   I had paused because I wanted to confirm some stuff before writing more about it… here’s a brain dump of the process.…

  • Faster than the bear & dodging the moose

    I was talking to mike lloyd tonight, a truly wonderful human being and one of the most viciously smart folks I know (he’s currently the CTO of Red Seal Networks); the kind who, if in the days of the musketeers, would put a blade through your chest and apologize profusely for inadvertently wounding you. We…

  • DARPA CFT

    I was just awarded a small DARPA contract through the Cyber Fast Track program which Mudge has been evangelizing for awhile now.  I’m still not sure how much I can say about it, but I will say more as time goes on… it was a remarkably painless process, I’ll say that – hard to believe that our big…

  • looking for a good man(1)

    I like documentation.   Programs should have it.  But on the heels of the man path thing I did some more looking on my  Snow Leopard System. Finding all the SUID files outside the traditional /sbin areas shows a few more (e.g. “find -x / -type f -perm -04000 -ls”.)   Looks like 15 files, 8 of…