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,…
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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…
Segmented Web Browsing Will Be the DMZ of the 2010’s
The recent AURORA attack is about to change how the web browser is handled within the enterprise. This sort of exposure will introduce a concept…
Availability Bias | Daniel Miessler
One of the most important dynamics at play within layperson debate is Availability Bias, which is where people are prone to believe that something is…
The Simple Reason New Year Resolutions Are Crap
New Years resolutions are supposedly for people who plan on making changes in their lives. But they really aren’t. They’re actually for people who only…