Closed Network != Security
To this day I am flabbergasted by the assertion that because your network is not connected to the big “I” Internet you can practice lax security. Countless p...
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WAMU{.org/.com}
WAMU, our local NPR station in DC, left me with a cliff hanger as I rushed back from the grocery store. In the days prior to the streaming web I would have j...
OpenBSD Drive Encryption Benchmarks
Let me start by saying I am not a benchmarker. At all…so these results are posted for friendly banter and I make no claim to their validity. Consider this th...
OpenBSD Disk Encryption Options – softraid and svnd
It is unfortunate, but the OpenBSD disk encryption tool-sets are no where near as mature as those found in FreeBSD or Linux. You would think with such a secu...
Herodotus and your Digital Tattoo – A comparison of the many anonymous email providers
Letter Written in Cipher on Mourning Paper by Rose Greenhow
What happens when you use TOR and Facebook
Facebook for all the lack of privacy controls and bad press, does in fact keep an eye on users. A few times since I started connecting to their jabber chat s...
Placebos and Security
There was recently a study that found when people knew that they were taking a placebo, it still helped. The common idea in the past was that you could utili...
BitlBee and OTR … then add some TOR!
With the release of 3.0.1 of BitlBee you can now chat from your favorite IRC client with the peace of mind that your protected. Since the OTR portion is stil...
-fno -fno -fno stack protection
2 days straight now on IRC (##security on irc.freenode.net if you want to say hi) I have had to help someone compiling a program deal with it failing mid-str...