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“Security Theater” is now “Theater of the Absurd”?

January 2, 2008 – 6:00 am – The New York Times recently ran a piece on airport security in which airport security is described as the “theater of the absurd.” It’s funny to watch certain terms and concepts play themselves out from a small community (infosec) to the larger pop culture. A few comments below…
By Kenneth F. Belva | Posted in Security in Popular Culture | Comments (0)

California Wildfires and Data Back-ups

December 6, 2007 – 6:00 am – It looks as though business continuity and off-site data backups / storage are being introduced to the consumer rather than just corporate entities. The wildfires in California have something to do with this… So when I hear about fires in southern California, or hurricanes in the southeast,…
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Shooting at Omaha Mall, Terrorism and Richard Clarke

December 5, 2007 – 5:45 pm – The shooting at the Omaha mall today reminded me of a terrorism piece Richard Clarke wrote for the Atlantic Monthly. It’s worth a re-read in light of the shooting, whether or not the mall incident turns out to be a terrorist attack. (It’s not known at the time of this blog post…
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Linus Torvalds: Security a matter of opinion

October 3, 2007 – 6:00 am – I found this on Slashdot. It points to an article here. Here is Torvalds on security: “Schedulers can be objectively tested. There’s this thing called ‘performance’, that can generally be quantified on a load basis. “Yes, you can have crazy ideas in both schedulers…
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Elite Drug Sniffing Dog Kidnapped and Rescued

August 30, 2007 – 6:00 am – On a more comical note, why might the kidnappers not have just killed this dog? Didn’t know the dog’s credentials, but came to realize he must be very popular Wanted to ransom it but didn’t know how the police kept finding them (embedded RFID tag) Wanted to use the dog to find…
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