Swinging For The Fences

I am going to whack the ball the over the fence. That was my four year olds response when I reminded him that his first T-Ball game was later that day as I woke him up.  I love my son but he spent 80% of his first and only T-Ball practice trying to make the … Read more

Security Is Fundamentally A Battle Of Mistakes

This morning I was out running some errands and NPR had an interview with a David Sklansky a poker player who wrote a book called “The Theory Of Poker” and he said the most important thing to remember about poker is that: Poker Is Fundamentally A Battle Of Mistakes That quote stuck with me all day … Read more

If you’re the smartest person in the room…

I have a mentor who sends me a motivational quote a couple of times a week and today he dropped this on me: If you’re the smartest person in the room, then you need to find another room. I have heard that quote before and actually used it in an opening slide of a talk … Read more

Malicious Copy and Paste Appending

Earlier today I was reading this article on Rollingstone.com about how FXX plans to show all 552 episodes of The Simpson’s this August and noticed when I copied anything from the website it appends a link and copyright notice.  That got me thinking about what else could be appended to copied text and how bad … Read more

How To Be A Security Expert On Twitter

So you want to be a Twitter security expert? I have come up with an easy to follow list to make sure you are: All Cons, All The Time!If you are not tweeting about flying to, attending, partying at, or flying home from a con at least once a month you cant be a security … Read more