Blayne Sucks

I was going to wait until Dan Kaminsky announced more details about this flaw at the Black Hat Briefings on August 6th, but Halver Flake’s recent post as essentially squeezed the toothpaste out of the tube on this one. Just look at what Dan has to say.
I’m not going to talk about Dan’s decision [...]

Yesterday Barack Obama was at Purdue University to talk about national security. You can read the text of his remarks here.
Purdue University may seem like a strange place to talk about National Security for many people, but this location was well-chosen for several reasons. First, Clinton won Indiana in the primaries and although [...]

CNN is running an article about a 22 year old woman who is facing a probable sentence of six years for identity fraud. There are a couple of things to note in this story.
First, their victims were friends and family. This is a common form of identity fraud. More than [...]

I have trouble describing how disappointed I am that this bill has passed. The roll call vote is available here. I have written about FISA previously here and here.
Although there are many aspects of this bill that disappoint me, I would like to take a moment to talk about the one closest to [...]

Tomorrow, on July 8th, the Senate will vote on a pending FISA amendment that includes provisions to give telecommunications companies legal protection for their role in the warrantless wiretapping, about which I have previously blogged here.
FISA stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and it was passed in 1978 to address abuses of [...]

One might assume that we can all agree that natural disasters are bad, but apparently we can’t. The Boston Globe has an article about how natural disasters are helpful. Yes, you read that right. The article is about how natural disasters are helpful.
Now, if you, like me, don’t believe that an earthquake which killed [...]