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Privacy is a Technological Imperative
My seasonal July funk has been working on me and my attitude, but not so much that I can’t find some perverse humor in the slashdot discussion on privacy as a biological imperative. Ms. Sweeney’s correlation of privacy to the … Continue reading
The Easy No
From Concurring Opinions, this commentary on a recent New York Times article on Hypercompliance on the HIPAA front. Health care folks have been intimidated into denying access to PHI to people who have legitimate inquiries and a legal right to … Continue reading
Dog of War or McGriff the Crime Dog?
So, solider or cop? War or Crime? Or both? I ask this question of my own self after reading (and enjoying) Michael C. W. Research’s recent posts on security framed in the context of Clauswitz. Thinking it through, though, I … Continue reading
New Concepts in Data, Compliance and Marketing or The Overly Dramatic Truth
Like the rest of the world, I read J. Cline’s article on the upcoming data eclipse while listening to El P’s I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, which is the best way to read it. J. Cline is prophesyin’ the impending … Continue reading
Vulnerabilty v. Threat
Jeremiah Grossman’s analysis of the MSNBC stock contest cheat. It seems to me that this sort of flaw would rise to the surface quickly from a threat perspective, but slower from a vulnerability perspective. I’m not sure why though.
The Italian Job
Odd ball kidnapping heist documented at MCN and Roadracing World illustrates the danger of the insider beyond the pilfered laptop or unexpired system credentials. Apparently the Alto Evolution World Superbike team “reduced the responsibilities” of Sergio Bertocchi, their erstwhile manager, … Continue reading
Sufficiency, Competence, Relevance
I returned to work after a refreshing and invigorating vacation in Wisconsin and greater Chicagoland. After marking random e-mails as “Read,” I look over some notes I took in a prefreshed state, most particularly this line: “Reality vs. ????” I … Continue reading
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
The One In Five 