Hard-won Lesson
Imagine this little scenario: Your Macbook hard drive fails. You take it to the Apple Store to get fixed. They charge you a fortune for an out-of-warranty repair and then refuse to return your broken...
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Playing with Fire
Even as the infrastructure around Information Cards and other user-centric and/or federated identity initiatives grows and matures, other groups & technologies are trying to solve the same...
View ArticleWe have a winner!
I’m revising my “anti-chick-magnet” list to add this one: A reputation for animal cruelty. What female is going to date a guy who kills a pet in a fit of drunken jealousy? Prior to this, my favorite...
View ArticleDIY Security for the Utterly Paranoid
I talked to several people who were somewhat disturbed about my last blog post. Surely it can’t be that easy? The potential exists – and I think it is worthwhile to ask why. Most people have been...
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Second Class (Non) Citizens
Just in case you all still thought that on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog: Heaven forbid you’re a plain ol’ Canadian dog who wants to experience streaming content now and then… and no, things...
View ArticleSears == Slimy
I want to talk about the Sears Holding Company, and I have nothing nice to say. They encouraged their own Sears and Kmart CUSTOMERS to download a piece of software that seriously compromised privacy,...
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Commercial Phishing
Twitter broke a very interesting story this week about a hacker who bulk-harvested account details by installing backdoors in a popular torrent hosting solution. Users registered for a valid service,...
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CardSpace *OR* ADFS 2.0
Microsoft announced last Tuesday that CardSpace 2.0 beta would not be releasing at the same time as ADFS 2.0. That fact may not have immediate significance to you, but it certainly does to me....
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Digital Dumpster Diving
Brian Krebs wrote a fascinating post recently on keylogger results that are being posted in various cloud locations. As Brian put it, insult is added to injury — not only has your machine been...
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Google Plus: Minus 1
Google Plus started out so well! It was pleasant, easy, and there was a lovely gratification in adding people to circles and being added in return. It felt like finally, perhaps somebody at Google...
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When your Empire has no Clothes
How many data points does it take to call something a trend? With the hack and subsequent data dump of the internal files of Hacking Team, a company most of us never even knew existed until this week,...
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