Is Risk Assessment a Snake-Oil Discipline?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the usefulness of risk assessment. A while back I had an interesting conversation...
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Performing a “Cold-Boot” Proof of Concept Without Princeton’s Bit-Unlocker
Most in the information security community have heard of the “cold-boot” attack against encryption products that was recently released by...
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A GTD Approach to Organizing and Reading Your Feeds
The fundamental problem when managing feeds is input management. Most of us simply have too many feeds to read in...
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Outrageous Beliefs Are NOT Equal to Claims They Are Preposterous
One of the most common arguments I hear from the religious is that their beliefs and mine are the same....
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect | Daniel Miessler
This explains a lot. The Dunning-Kruger effect describes the phenomenon whereby people who don’t know anything about something think they...
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Hunting down subdomain takeover vulnerabilities
Subdomain takeovers are a well-documented security misconfiguration. Despite widespread awareness, developers still frequently forget to remove DNS records pointing to...
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My Thoughts on Depression | Daniel Miessler
A new BBC piece is highlighting an alternate approach to depression. Rather than assume that it’s something that should immediately...
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Say Goodbye to U.S. Particle Physics
This is sickening. Fermilab, The United States’ main particle physics lab, is being hamstrung by congress’s latest omnibus bill. This...
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Was the Last Time Your Last?
I used to be into BMX bikes. I was obsessed. Every little thing about it was interesting. The brakes, the...
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A Three-Dimensional Approach to Organizing Your Feeds Using Google Reader
I’m constantly optimizing how I do things, and nowhere is this more important to me than with my feed reader....
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An Oversimplification of the Subprime Morgage Crisis
I’m not an economist, but I read a lot. Here’s what happened: greed + stupidity. Greed on the part of...
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Apple vs. AT&T | Daniel Miessler
As you may have heard, AT&T’s chief executive disclosed last week that the second version of the iPhone will be...
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