The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
A monumental work… what a great line as well. From the immortal Goya. Always stay vigilant…. (Image from the truly marvelous Met Museum of Art web pages, they have...
cats who stare down goats
I went to the 2011 USENIX security conference… admittedly not expecting much, but wietse was going to be there, and I must say a really, really fine show. Yes, this...
…losing a half day of my life… and I’m running out of half days.
This line did it: $ENV{'PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME'} = 0; Net::Nessus::XMLRPC, which calls LWP::UserAgent, didn’t emit any hints why something that had been working for many months suddenly doesn’t when I am forced to...
philosophizing
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...
DARPA, I’ll miss you when I’m gone
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...
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...