Blayne Sucks

Clarence Thomas was interviewed on 60 Minutes tonight. I was still rather young when Thomas was going through his confirmation process and I didn’t realize that he only had about one year of experience as a judge at the time. There were a lot of political machinations that were going on with his […]

There’s a BBC article that was posted this past Saturday entitled Big Brother is watching us all. I am leary of reading traditional media articles about privacy because many of them are inflammatory and most seem to provide and distorted view of what most reasonable privacy advocates are actually advocating. However, I was […]

One of the reasons why I like sports, and football in particular, is that they are readily analogous to life. Over the football season, you can see life lessons in action and have an opportunity to learn from them. More importantly, it is easier to talk about football problems than real life problems […]

The 2007 Football Season is upon us. Both the Colts and Boilermakers have gotten out of the gate with solid wins under their belts. Purdue beat Toledo last Saturday and will be playing Eastern Illinois tomorrow. I watched most of this game with a few friends, but we left before Dorien Bryant’s […]

There’s a principle in computer security that is the basis of access control as we know it. This principle is called The Principle of Least Privilege. The idea is that you should only provide the minimum amount of rights needed for someone to do the things they need to do. For example, […]