Rijndael is Pronounced “Rhine Dahl”
Well, technically [rɛindaːl], but “Rhine Dahl”, or even, “Rine Doll” is pretty close. Although there’s a joke that it’s now pronounced “AES” since Rijndael was…
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Security and Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk?
My opinion on security and obscurity is that obscurity can in fact help improve an already sound security posture. That’s keeping in mind that it…
The Craziest Thing You’ll Ever Learn About Pi
First off, happy pi day. According to a physicist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the number Pi has been calculated out to over one…
Three Powerful Safari Features That Few People Use
[Edit: An updated version of this post, with 6 additional features, can be found here] Safari is an excellent browser for many reasons; its speed,…
Time to Switch From Debit to Credit When Paying for Things?
I tend to prefer debit when purchasing things. It hasn’t really been a security thing for me; it’s been more of a speed issue. But…
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A Logical Approach to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and One World Government [NWO] Conspiracy
Let me just say that I am highly resistant to conspiracy theories in general. I think most of them are the product of too much…
Capturing Traffic Once and Making That Traffic Available to Multiple Tools
I’ve been obsessed with an idea for a while now of a networking and security tool that captures network data once and makes that data…
Economy Failing, Exxon Making Record Profit
Does anyone else think it’s (shameful | criminal | wrong | outrageous) for Exxon to be making record profits (10.7 billion last year) while the…
Internet Security Love | Daniel Miessler
The information security community is a relatively small one, and it remains so even on the Internet. It feels good to get noticed by your…
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 with Marcus Ranum about the…
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 Princeton. They put out a…
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 a single sitting. How can…