I realize this is a bit old now… but I keep coming back to it. For posterity. A wise sage once said: There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — [pauses] — You can’t get fooled again. I really do wonder how he got elected […]
So I’ve been winding down my project at DARPA and thought I’d put down some at least close-to-final thoughts on it. I’ve been asked a number of times about how much people should charge for their work. Three things on this: The government is doing you a favor if you get accepted – you get to do what you want, keep it, and that’s it? That’s gotta be worth […]
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, way too hard, way too… much of a pain in the ass. We talk […]
Some tool at firefox, which I’ve started using more with more web dev (<3 firebug), decided it’d be a good idea to switch windows if you type in a URL that is already open. Unbelievable that they think this is good UI practice (switching focus invisibly to another fucking monitor is progress?) And having no option to delete this asinine feature? Thank god for addons – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-to-tab-no-more/ Programmers… lowest […]
Peter Neumann introduced me to another Peter, the author of this delightful lil’ missive below. Thanks P^2. [5] Elias, P., “Two famous papers” (Editorial), Sep. 1958, p. 99. TWO FAMOUS PAPERS PETER ELIAS It is common in editorials to discuss matters of general policy and not specific research. But the two papers I would like to describe have been written so often, by so many different authors under so […]