When I moved up to Pennsylvania, I did a legal check to make sure I was allowed to possess a great big stack of sharp things. It turns out that – while everyone in Pennsylvania seems to be able to carry guns – some manual arms are banned.
In case you didn’t know, or had mistakenly believed some vendors’ claims that things are getting better: computer security is still approximately as bad as it was when I got into the field in 1989.
For those of you that enjoyed [stderr] the podcast episode about snakes and ebola, here’s something related.
One of the many podcasts I follow is Adam Savage’s Untitled, the Adam Savage Project. It’s pretty good when he gets started on film-making or special effects, and sometimes it’s really interesting.
In computer security, we talk about “I&A” – Identification (or Authentication) and Authorization. It’s one of the fundamental problems that makes everything work or not work, accordingly.
It took less than 12 hours from the time that the FBI arrested Cesar Sayoc and information about his past inclinations was being dug up and presented. We knew about his arrest record, the threats he’d already made, and people he’d made uncomfortable were chiming in about how they thought he might be a problem someday.
It’s not going to take very long, I predict, before the FBI will have the guy who mailed fake bombs to CNN, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and left one at (or was it mailed?) George Soros’ house.
A Supervisory Special Agent is a Big Deal in the Secret Service. And SSA Jack Lewis was a Big Deal.
This is a true story of how I got a Message From The Swedish Prime Minister.
The problem with the space station (it was leaking air) has been identified. From there, the story gets bizzare. [guard]