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You never know whose tomorrow it will be

2008-04-07 18:52:27 by HASH0x8ba2a2c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...inherent wisdom that my Grandmother brought to life and the many things I learned from her. I remember being younger and thinking she was a little bit meshuguna as she would say. But as I now realize she was crazy as a fox and I hope I can be only half as intuitively smart as she was. She had an intuitive grasp of people and life that cannot...
 
Tags: tomorrow, bob, grandmother, guy, life, yankee game relevant, season tickets, people, partner
 
 
 
 
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A conspicuous contribution !

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2007-12-04 17:40:46 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
...inherent culture of the Internet, where you cannot stand alone but have to co-operate with other companies so that your customers can interwork Anyway, when I was given the award, I should have pulled out a neat little speech along the above lines, and said thank you to the whole industry, and thank you to THUS, and thank you to colleagues...
 
Tags: formal linx meetings, linx meetings, linx, linx council, meetings, conspicuous contribution, contribution, fiercely competitive industry, internet
 
 
 
 
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?

2008-02-07 22:25:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...inherent conflict onto a single person and expect them to deal with it without going completely bonkers, we have two roles, with different people. People skilled in each area negotiate with each other and come to an agreement about what's best both for Microsoft and for our customers Similar thinking exists for the second pair of roles....
 
Tags: information, information assets, information security, alignment folk, security alignment folk, information security department, alignment, security department, security
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...inherent problem of end users being able to write malicious code into the web site Web mashups are another popular component of Web 2.0. JavaScripts Same Origin Policy prevents web developers from writing client-based mashups (that is, mashups that dont use a server proxy to request data from the individual sites being mashed together) in...
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...inherent value of privacy -- but this theory has a glossy appeal, and could easily be mistaken for a way out of the problem of technology's continuing erosion of privacy. Except it doesn't work, because it ignores the crucial dissimilarity of power You cannot evaluate the value of privacy and disclosure unless you account for the relative...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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K.I.S.S. the castle (analogy) good-bye! Okay, done - now what?

2008-03-30 12:50:51 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...inherent simplicity In todays complex data and identity driven world of security and risk management, the old castle simply doesnt cut it any longer. Just think of examples like the skyrocketing amount of data crown jewels all over the place (not just in the tower), the almost constant transport of these assets to places in and mostly outside...
 
Tags: castle, castle metaphor, security, non-security folks, analogy, todays security, castle simply, network security, used-to-death castle analogy
 
 
 
 
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Buffer Overflows are like Hospital-Acquired Infections?

2007-09-16 12:35:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...inherent issues in medicine such as patient differences, etc. A few things that fall into the avoidable category are Common hospital-acquired infections Urinary tract infections for example are extremely rare when proper protocols are followed Blatant surgical errors Tools left in patient for example. There are easy ways to make 100% sure...
 
Tags: buffer overflows, infections, patient, buffer overflows tricky, errors, patient differences, avoidable errors, tricky, blatant surgical errors
 
 
 
 
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Seat Belt Usage and Compensating Behavior

2008-04-11 13:44:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...inherent risk thermostat that seeks out an optimal level of risk. When something becomes inherently safer -- a law is passed requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets, for example -- people compensate by riding more recklessly. I first read this theory in a 1999 paper by John Adams at the University of Reading, although it seems to have...
 
Tags: seat belt, seat belt usage, laws, seat belt laws, fatalities, traffic fatalities, inherent risk thermostat, risk, indirect adverse effect
 
 
 
 
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RSA Day 2: Wednesday with JJ & the Engima

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2008-04-14 01:35:30 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...inherent security risk of mixing data and coding together. View photos from session Then they talked about using good technology in a way that made it vulnerable. Examples, the Enigma code machines from WWII. (It was actually broken by the known plain-text gathered from repetition in contact initiation, and the mis-use of one-time-pads). They...
 
Tags: security, inherent security risk, day, security bloggers party, dry session, session, enigma, enigma machines, fathers session