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Monthly Archives: May 2007
The Red Duck
Yesterday was a tough one at work, made especially tougher by the fact that the House of Tooth is flying out on vacation tomorrow, earlier than I feel comfortable contemplating. But if Mr. Howell is going to write about motor … Continue reading
Signals, Calls and Marches
Two stories stuck in my craw this past week. Now, I’m spitting them out, for your pre-masticated pleasure. Firstly:Tim Wilson’s post at Dark Reading figures we shouldn’t buy IBM security services because one of their contractors lost a storage tape … Continue reading
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Motoprox
Yesterday I was barreling down the concrete slab choked with tractor-trailers and nitro-burnining funny trucks laden with oily 2x4s and spent joint compound jugs, I was engaging my left brain in random problem solving (“Resolved: The world is as random … Continue reading
Everyday Privacy & Security Part 2: Fear Factor Authentication, or I Won’t Forget You Baby, Even Though I Should
If you are like me, or, if in fact, you are me, your online financial transacting experience has gone all Security 2.0 by the factor of WOW! Over the weekend, I had an unpleasant experience. The clerk at our local … Continue reading
SSNS ON THE LOOSE! (Legacy Edition)
I’m trying to understand the newsworthiness of the latest episode of “SSNS On The L0OzE. OMG!!1!!” Some dude in the mail room puts a bunch of computer tapes in the wrong slot, according to the AP report in the Houston … Continue reading
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Tagged breach notification, disclosure laws, internal auditing, physical security, sb1386, security
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Throwing Scorpion Out With the Frog Water
Declan McCullagh says that the federal government is unlikely to implement the National Research Council’s privacy recommendations, in particular, a privacy commissioner, because it isn’t in the federal government’s scorpion-like nature. Ars Technica also has coverage. (And why must it … Continue reading
Waffle are Just Pancakes with Little Squares On ‘Em
I’ve been working on something, but I don’t know if it will make by race time in Shanghai. In the meantime, the most important part of internal auditing is “production value.” And we know what that means.
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Tagged internal auditing, risk assessment, tapeheads, waffles
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Impacted Molars
Brighter Teeth From Educational Security Incidents via Pogo comes this terrifying story of privacy laden scratch paper from the land of the gigantic stone Texan. Apparently Sam Houston State U. uses a student ID number that is not their SSN. … Continue reading
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The One In Five 