How to Tell if Someone is a True Libertarian
In short, if they’re against these things on moral grounds, and, importantly, want them to be illegal–they are outright fakes. The giveaway isn’t that they…
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Mac vs. PC Security In One Sentence
If you follow Information Security at all or have been part of a PC vs. Mac discussion at any level, you’ve probably come across the…
A News Aggregator Idea: Filtering by Result Count
How about an aggregator technology that lets you filter the number of links you want by number? So instead of filtering by how recent of…
How To Decide Who To Friend on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter
this is not a picture related to boobs What follows is my method of deciding who to friend on the three major social networks: Facebook,…
OS X: Manipulating the Clipboard via Command Line
So I somehow just found out that you can manipulate OS X’s clipboard via command line. The utility that does it is called pbcopy (and…
Free Will and Punishment | Daniel Miessler
It seems to me that the decision, both as an individual and as a society, to either punish or rehabilitate criminals hinges on the degree…
Using Twitter Lists to See How You’re Perceived Online
People often wonder what others think of them. If you use Twitter to any significant degree there’s a simple way to tell: do a tag…
4 Ways Terrorist Profiling is Like Antivirus
Both can be bypassed by smart attackers who know they’re being profiled. Both have moderate success in catching less-dedicated attackers. You shouldn’t think either is…
An Idea for a Web Application
How about a web app that filters meritocracy sites (Digg, Reddit, Hacker News) into new feeds based on thresholds of upvotes? So, one feed is…
Oxford Mathematician Shows Decisions Six Seconds Before They’re Made
John-Dylan Haynes (Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) shows Marcus Du Sautoy (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and current…
A Fantasy Explanation of Standard vs. Blind SQL Injection
Many in InfoSec get confused about the difference between standard and blind SQL injection. Here’s a simple way to think about it. In both cases you…
Happiness: Creation vs. Collection | Daniel Miessler
I have an observation that I’ve been mulling for the last few days: unhealthy people collect things. Healthy people create things. Naturally, statements like these…