dinosaur, me, security, sexism

A Legend in Someone Else’s Mind

May 7, 2025

So this is a self-indulgent whimsical interlude that’s overly long. Pull up a chair if you want, else, I hope all is well in your world. All that said –...

dinosaur, friend, people, security, Uncategorized

It was 20 years ago today…

April 5, 2015

… and a few lifetimes… that wietse and I released SATAN.  What a long strange journey, as they say. Thanks to all the folks who used it, to the friends who...

art, audit, dinosaur, philosophy, security, tech, work

<3 Policy

December 8, 2014

Security Policies Let us praise, slay, and bury security policies together. A security policy is perhaps the best way to deal with the security monster. It concerns itself with business and...

dinosaur, tech

getting tcpdump to write to pcap format

November 3, 2014

I wouldn’t think I’d be writing something like this, but….. Apple changed the default of tcpdump to writeout pcap-ng format, which wireshark doens’t understand by default. Wasn’t sure what was...

dinosaur, philosophy, work

Post Millenium Tension

June 22, 2014

Perhaps this should be subtitled Why I’ll Never Work at Microsoft. I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know where to begin, as the song goes. I started writing...