Mindless-Politics
HITB08 – Marcus Ranum Keynote on CyberWar..
I just managed to pull the HackintheBox torrents for their [2008 talks]. (SensePosters can grab a local copy [here]). I watched Marcus Ranums “Cyberwar is Bullshit” talk. A talk that was truly wince-worthy! While the talk will make you scream at the screen a few times, it is worth watching just to see the Q&A section after the talk.. It’s quite clear that Ranum gets owned more thoroughly than his online gallery did.
Sarah Palin, a yahoo email account, and something more shocking…
By now everyone knows that John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin had her yahoo email account hacked. I guess a presidential candidate using yahoo for govt. related email was about as shocking as Sarah Palins nomination as possible future president ((unless of course you have ever heard of other govt. officials using yahoo/gmail/hotmail for serious business)(inside joke for south africans!)).
People have been talking about secure password resets for a long time [1] and this was pretty shocking all around..
I have always tried to keep this blog politics-free
but the last Scott Adams posting on the Iranian presidents US visit has to be the best piece i have read in a long long time..
Shuttleworth comments on Microsoft/Ubuntu deal rumours
Mark Shuttleworth on his blog makes it clear
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“We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements.”
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I have no objections to working with Microsoft in ways that further the cause of free software, and I donâ€t rule out any collaboration with them, in the event that they adopt a position of constructive engagement with the free software community.
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All the deals announced so far strike me as “trinkets in exchange for air kissesâ€. Mua mua. No thanks.
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