Category: people
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By sheer Chance
Sometimes you’re simply struck by a phrase, a line, a feeling…. Was struck the other day by a song on the radio – Cocoa Butter Kisses, where a fast talkin’ rapper who misses his grandma’s kisses because he reeks of tobacco/weed. Forgot about it for awhile, then ran across the album to the right on…
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Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again….
A letter I wrote to jeff moss, Mr. Def Con, about the last DC which I attended a day and a half of. Lots of promise… but wow. Jeff (who I’ve known over 20 years) responded and we’ll have a chat… I do hope some forward progress can be made. Various others have posted about…
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everything looks good, but….
So at first, this looks normal: The emulated hardware consists in the following devices: 32 bit x86 compatible CPU 8259 Programmble Interrupt Controller 8254 Programmble Interrupt Timer 16450 UART Real Time Clock. IDE interface and hard disk. But then… he goes on to say it’s written in… javascript. http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html Astonishing demo here (requires somewhat of…
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High Fidelity, part I/II
Splitting this into two pieces… someday I’ll say a bit about HiFi technology, but I feel compelled to write about a hifi experience I had recently. Anyone who goes into audiophilia even a bit probably has some sad or bad stories about worthless tech, pushy salesfolks, hype, etc., etc. Overall I chalk it up to…
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security strikeout
Everybody’s Talkin’… no one’s doing? Talking to a CSO of a fortune 500 company and a CSO of a bank… asked them if they ran scanners or vulnerability assessment tools on their home systems. No. Of course no. 0-3. And pretty much no one I know in the security profession does… it’s way too painful,…
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Miss you
Just ran across a picture of Bob Abbott, who died last year… I knew him for close to 20 years… and he was a great man, I shall miss drinking with him, arguing with him, talking with him… but mostly I’ll just miss him. I also found a treasure of an interview here, which I’ll…