October 2007
172 posts
alexhutton: putting the kids to bed. Its getting to be quite an elaborate ritual. (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: more contract work and then a White Paper! (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @mcwresearch: I got a couple in gmail… (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Working on a contract, about to go meet Mort for lunch (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: sweet, my other gmail domain just offered IMAP! (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: today’s Heidi, Girl Geek Detective is a good one: http://www.planetheidi.com/ (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Hmmmm… The Ukranians went unavailable as soon as I opened a support ticket. Co-inky dink? (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Hey, heads up those of us in the US - today is free taco day at taco bell (via Twitter / alexhutton)
Proper Risk Analysis *Can’t* Mean Unnecessary...
Sammy Migues over at the “Justice League” blog from Cigital has written an interesting article on “risk management”. Basically, he’s saying that we can have too much of a good thing. Too much risk management creates too many controls.
Except that it doesn’t.
Not the way we look at it at least.
THAT WORD AGAIN, “RISK MANAGEMENT”
First, I’d argue that our concept of risk management is a little...
alexhutton: Did I mention that this will go down on your permanent record? Oh yeah, well don’t get so distressed… (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: watching tivo’d survivor. It’s a guilty pleasure. (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: Really? Everytime I see a promo I think: Oh, dear, Bertie’s been cut off by Dahlia and become addicted to heroin. (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: I wonder what Fry thinks of Hugh Laurie in “House”. I’ve never seen it, mainly because I can’t imagine an unshaven Bertie Wooster. (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: I’ve often wondered what Stephen Fry thinks of Hugh Laurie in “House”. I’ve never seen it, mainly because I can’t imagine an un … (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: can anyone with leopard tell me if dashboard widgets can now run on the desktop? (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: great, you just made the business case for a hard drive upgrade! (via Twitter / alexhutton)
Semi-Security Weekend Reading
Happy weekend everybody!
You know, I read something in the magnitude of 180(ish) security blogs, a handful of mailing lists, and 2 print magazines as a way of trying to keep up on new (and good) thought in the profession. Now I’d like to think that this keeps me on top of publicly available security related information. One thing that I find, is that we tend to be myopes, focused on our...
alexhutton: @bsag: Is it faster? (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: My jealousy overfloweth (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @Beaker: Richard’s latest tao post is quite good. I don’t think he realizes how good it really is! (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @beaker: I just got about a dozen past posts in my RSS reader (Vienna) - could be the reader, I suppose (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @beaker: WTF just happened to your RSS feed? (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @jonrobinson: No rhyme or reason, so what do you think of Schneier’s evolution argument today? (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: I’m going to love IMAP for Gmail eventually, but right now my mail environment is all !@#$% up… (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Utility vs. Principle: The bookmark sync feature of the iPhone is cool enough to consider moving back to Safari from Firefox (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: The bookmark sync feature of the iPhone is cool enough to consider moving back to Safari from Firefox… It’s a Utility vs. Principle qu … (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: The Google IMAP isn’t completely propagated in the US yet. Only one of my 6 gmail accounts offers it (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: @bsag: The Google IMAP isn’t completely propagated in the US yet. Only one of my 6 gmail accounts offers it (oddly it’s a Gmail for my … (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: developing position paper/presentation for The Open Group (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Just saw an add - “Noggin, it’s like pre-school on TV!” Oh, we’re becoming the absent parent society (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Buffet on CNBC: “in the end, our economy will be fine - but that doesn’t mean it’ll be (fine) in 5 months or 10 months” (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: “in the end, our economy will be fine - but that doesn’t mean it’ll be (fine) in 5 months or 10 months” Sounds like he expects a small … (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Listening to Warren Buffet on CNBC talking about the market and FI sector (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Talk about Weird Markets - the price of 4gb iPhones on ebay is more than new 8gb iPhones in many cases - at a loss to figure out why… (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Thanks Google! (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Switching from POP to IMAP for Apple Mail, iPhone (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: upgrading my adobe air, and installing the latest alpha of omnifocus (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: The children are fighting (via Twitter / alexhutton)
Best Security Analogy/Description Yet
From Chris Hoff - in comments on Shurdlu’s Layer 8 blog:
…there is no “thing” (read: silver bullet) that the “market” will go for. There’s lots of silver buckshot
but it’s applied without order or strategy.
So my questions for you, Internet friends:
What’s that order or strategy worth?
What if it could be quantifiable (you know, metrics), how much then would it be worth?
If quantified...
Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling... →
Paper or plastic?
alexhutton: Cubicle FREAK OUT http://www.eyegas.com/cubiclefreakout/ (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: http://www.eyegas.com/cubiclefreakout/ (via Twitter / alexhutton)
“On Friday, Apple will start selling the new Leopard version of its OS X...”
– As Apple Gains PC Market Share, Jobs Talks of a Decade of Upgrades - New York Times
Some Notes This Monday AM
Hope you had a good weekend!
RiskAnalys.is - Now With Special iPhone Friendliness!
First, for those of you with an iPhone, RiskAnalys.is is now using the crescent fresh theme/plugin for wordpress, iWPhone. So if you come and visit us with your iPhone, you’ll see a specially formatted version of the weblog.
Consumer Credit, Fraud, and That One Dude’s Social Security Number
Brent Huston has a...
alexhutton: Oh, and I hate the Red Sox (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Bloggy Blogg Blog. I’m a postin- a quickie this AM: http://www.riskanalys.is (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: Not trying to bash Microsoft here, but I highly doubt Vista is “the most secure OS per line of code”: http://tinyurl.com/243dsv (via Twitter / alexhutton)
alexhutton: mmmm playoff baseball (via Twitter / alexhutton)