As the title says, please stop saying “cyber”. It means nothing. More specifically, what it does mean is “blah blah networks and/or security”. In the industry, this is so non-specific that it essentially means nothing anyways. As a security engineer, I get pretty sick of seeing/hearing the term “cyber” thrown around to describe pretty much [...]
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The other day I was driving around with Emily, and I mentioned to her the origin of the name and logo of Cisco Systems. I can’t remember how it came up, but it did. I’m constantly tinkering with stuff in my lab, so she knows what the logo looks like even though it isn’t her [...]
So I was tinkering with my ASA the other day. I was interested in this neat Botnet Traffic Filter thingy they’d been clamoring about. Cisco frequently pitches how their products are made with magic and rainbows and cruelty-free unicorn meat, and I tend to be a bit skeptical. But a lot of people have been [...]
On the subject of the the following article, Full Text (via Huffington Post) I often think I could have been a lawyer or a politician. I think a lot of this generations bright and well meaning potential politicians have been scared off by how much BS and red tape there is in the way of [...]
So I’ve been away from blog-land for a while. I recently migrated my main server for iggdawg.com from FreeBSD to Ubuntu, mostly due to lack of CUDA support on FreeBSD. The details aren’t important, and you probably aren’t here to listen to techno-babble. Unfortunately during the move, a Bad Thing happened and I managed to [...]
I thought this was good enough to repost. Alt-text reproduced faithfully. Ref: http://xkcd.com/712/
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to [...]
…But happy early V-Day from the random awesomeness that is the internet. I don’t usually make “hey check out this pic” posts, but this one is kind of a gem. And it’s almost seasonal. Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
“A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified “Pedobear”, a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. … It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer. “ Full Article: [...]
Woot.com shirt of the day today. So pissed it sold out before I saw it
