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Innovators, Imitators and Idiots

2008-10-07 08:32:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Charlie Rose interviews Warren Buffett Charlie Rose And so when you look at where we are going, there seems to be two issues that are apparent to me at least, risk and leverage. We just lost sight of risk and leverage of what was appropriate Warren Buffett Yeah. Again, because it pays off for a while. You know, you can lose leverage, and it's...
 
Tags: risk, oeprational risk, risk events, risk-reward balance, wise people, people, buffett raises, buffett, blind risk acceptance
 
 
 
 
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Assets Good Until Reached For

2008-09-15 09:41:43 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...Charlie Munger, as he is wont to do, went a bit further (from 2004 I think a good litmus test of the mental and moral quality at any large institution [with significant derivatives exposure] would be to ask them, "Do you really understand your derivatives book?" Anyone who says yes is either crazy or lying They have many other statements...
 
Tags: risk management, information risk management, risk management practices, risk, assets, industry, people, business people, security industry
 
 
 
 
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Mac Hacked in 2 Minutes, Apple is a lame patcher

2008-03-27 22:02:09 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...Charlie Miller wins the PWN 2 OWN contest. I think these contest are kinda lame as they do not prove much, other than Charlie Miller was most likely sitting on a vulnerability waiting until the contest. I still think it is some what cool that there are people that are still interested in OS vulnerabilities Link In other news some swiss guys...
 
Tags: apple, security, leopard security concerns, lame patcher, lame, apple sadly, worst security, apple blocks, minutes
 
 
 
 
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Risks, cost of an attack versus price of encryption

2008-04-18 14:32:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Charlie Martin in Computerworld exploring how expensive (or rather cheap) encryption really is compared to potential losses due to data loss Not sure he calculated the costs and probability of the cold boot attack quite right - I think the fact that over 40% of folks do not shut down their laptops while travelling makes this a higer...
 
Tags: higer probability, probability, data loss, potential losses due, charlie martin, cold boot attack, data, charlie, short survey
 
 
 
 
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Bubblicious

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2008-07-15 21:26:02 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...Charlie Munger identified much the same themes (not all the particulars) way back in Wesco Financial's 1990 letter Granting the presence of perverse incentives, what are the operating mechanics that cause widespread bad loans (where the higher interest rates do not adequately cover increased risk of loss) under our present system? After all,...
 
Tags: bad, widespread bad loans, letter, charlie munger, charlie, system, social proof, munger, volatile combination
 
 
 
 
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Demos Report on National Security

2008-01-03 06:33:52 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
National Security for the Twenty-First Century," by Charlie Edwards at the British think-tank Demos. It's long -- 121 pages -- but there's some good stuff in it
 
Tags: national security, british think-tank demos, charlie edwards, twenty-first century, stuff, pages
 
 
 
 
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Mac OS X Security - Reality Check #2

2008-03-27 21:43:20 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...Charlie Miller appears to have set up a web site containing malicious code and used a "browse to own" vulnerability to win the contest
 
Tags: mac, charlie miller appears, machine, malicious code, web site, dollars publicly, pwn, browse, ads
 
 
 
 
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Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest

2008-03-27 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
It may be the quickest US$10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned
 
Tags: charlie miller, us10
 
 
 
 
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Caution: Patent trolls at work

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2008-04-01 09:07:03 by HASH0x8b4b96c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Charlie, Starkist wants tuna that tastes good". The fact is their patent did not apply to how our product works. But it brings up a bigger issue that has come up before, patent trolls Our patent system is in drastic need of an overhaul. In this particular case, I know for a fact that their use of this technology was not the first use in...
 
Tags: patent, patent trolls, patent troll, patent infringement, recent patent, award, award attorney fees, patent office, trolls
 
 
 
 
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Caution: Patent trolls at work

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2008-04-01 10:07:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Charlie, Starkist wants tuna that tastes good". The fact is their patent did not apply to how our product works. But it brings up a bigger issue that has come up before, patent trolls Our patent system is in drastic need of an overhaul. In this particular case, I know for a fact that their use of this technology was not the first use in...