Selil

Seeing this meme roll through the Web 2.0 sphere as shocked and horrified stories of adult children are arrogantly disgusted that their social activities are ousted to their parents is hilarious. What isn’t so hilarious is the whimsical childishness of this group of social software natives stepping all over the roots of the Ent’s as [...]

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I don’t get invited to cool conferences to speak. I don’t live in Washington D.C. More importantly I’m a relative nobody and that empowers me. I have nothing to lose and I can be forthright in what I say. Heck I can’t get people to show up and listen to me speak unless I offer [...]

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A common refrain of the uninformed is that I have nothing to hide so therefore I don’t care who peeks through my window. Until the power balance of the country or community changes and when political views are no longer in vogue. Perhaps that minor mistake suddenly becomes a crime or something you didn’t know [...]

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While talking with one of my students tonight I was reminded of this article. How about using a microphone to hack the key of a system? Using acoustic signature to get the encryption key and other information as a passive mode of surveillance is possible. Authors Shamir and Tromer at MIT lay out the case [...]

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As a former Marine I take umbrage at to much political correctness…. The f-word is a capital letter, comma, period, exclamation mark, and hyphen. It fills the role of punctuation in the speech of a Marine. It should be used in language as such. For those afraid of the f-word, fearful, inured, cultured, obtuse, or [...]

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In the news today is a story about a TSA alert brought on by block cheese and wires (CNN.com). After seeing the story it seemed an interesting coincidence that the alert comes just a week after The Secretary of Homeland Security has a “gut feeling” that an attack is eminent (APNews) and Senator Rick Santorum [...]

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The following post is in response to the Wired news story that members of the Army are specifically banned from posting on Blogs. This is of specific interest as Blogs have served as a “lessons learned” and educational tools form military members. Websites like the Small Wars Council/Journal allow military members, civilian contractors, academics, and [...]

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In the restriction of personal freedom for perceived security rarely do you gain that security you crave. You loose freedom in a iterative and piecemeal way leaving a hungry feeling for the freedoms lost. Reactionary political fascism has never resulted in a substantial increase in security for a population. It does have a substantial effect [...]

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Have you seen the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy? I watched it on Google Video a few hours ago. I have spent the intervening hours trying to collect and articulate my thoughts. To say I am upset is an understatement. I am horrified. I am distraught. I am devastated. I love my country. I am so [...]

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