In response to Michael at mcwresearch and Michael (LV) at terminal23, I’m surprised there has been no middle-ground adoption that gives users ability to format text (colors, bold, italic, underline, bullets, etc), without the nastiness of HTML and without the plainness of plain text. It looks like enriched text (RFC 1896) was supposed to do […]

Who else besides me thinks “ThreatCon” levels are bullshit? (not to be confused with vulnerability alerts) After checking out Slashdot this morning, I came across CERTStation, which attempts to aggregate current threat information into one page, entirely in Flash. I won’t get into how much Flash sites irritate me, as we can debate for days […]

On Christmas, I went to the movie theaters and saw The Good Shepherd. I liked it, but felt that the romance with Angelina Jolie and family issues took away from it. It did a good job showing how family and relationships are affected by secretive lives, but I didn’t care too much for that. I […]

Alright, I just have to respond to this opinion regarding Social network users have ruined their privacy, forever.
Just about anyone can read what’s posted onto social networking websites like MySpace and FaceBook. ‘Anyone’ includes the intended audience of friends, but potentially relatives, teachers and employers too. And much of what is posted can never be […]

Following everyone else and their “Security Predictions of 2007,” I have some predictions of my own:

I will be graduating in August with a Bachelor’s Degree
I will be looking for an entry-level position in security

These are two predictions that I am 100% positive of for the year 2007. In reply to Mike Rothman, Mike Murray, and […]