Hashing vs. Encryption vs. Encoding vs. Obfuscation
There is often significant confusion around the differences between encryption, encoding, hashing, and obfuscation. Get the TL;DR Let’s take a look at each one: Encoding…
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How to Build a Just Society
I was re-reading a part of Moral Landscape this weekend and came across a concept I had not shared yet. It’s the idea of building…
The People Making the Best Arguments Against College, Went to College
If you frequent Hacker News and Reddit as I do you’re probably familiar with a certain type of rant regarding college. It goes something like…
Burp Intruder Payload Methods Explained
If you use Burp a good bit you’ve likely run into the question of what precisely the various Intruder Payload Methods do. Specifically, what are…
Levels of Awareness | Daniel Miessler
I think there are two primary levels of awareness possible for modern humans. There are those who don’t think about why they want what they…
Life > Fear | Daniel Miessler
I recently decided to give Xobni for GMail a try. It does some wicked integration between your Google contacts, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Basically, the idea…
A Social Media Security Model
I am often asked how I handle handle security while using social networks. This post serves as my answer in image and bullet form. I…
The Ambitious Sam Harris | Daniel Miessler
I was just struck this morning with a realization about Sam Harris’s latest book: The Moral Landscape. I’m browsing through portions of it again after…
Trump Proposed a Lump Tax on the Rich to Pay Off the National Debt
Today I learned (from Scott Adams’ blog) that Donald Trump, during his last presidential run, proposed that we pay the national debt off all at…
CNN and Hero Suicide Bombers
I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch. It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s forces. He…
iPhone vs. Android: The Porsche and the Winnebago
We’ve heard a thousand such analogies, and they generally suck. Perhaps this one will suck slightly less. Getting right to it, the iPhone experience is…
How to Connect to an Astaro SSL VPN using OS X
I’ve been stupid for Astaro since the early 00’s and I remain so today. Today I run it in a virtual machine on an ESXi…