Dropsafe

Amusing paper. Lots of words about what is important. At first blush, not much upon how to deliver it. Alas the paper suffers from yet another security model. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-01trustworthywp.asp

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mmm… i always reckoned PKI was overrated… After development delays and cost overruns, the Royal Mail has officially pulled the plug on its ViaCode digital certificate project. Launched back in March, 1999, ViaCode was to be an encrypted authentication and email technology for businesses. At the time of its launch, the Royal Mail was looking

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http://www.infosecnews.com/sgold/news/2002/06/19_05.htm Symantec Gets BS 7799 Certified Symantec Corp.’s managed security service operation centers have qualified for the British Standard (BS) 7799 certification. First established in 1995, the BS 7799 certificate is a specification that sets the standard for establishing, implementing and documenting information security management systems. …

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According to a report in the Canberra Times, a student with the Australia National University has discovered many biometrics systems can be fooled into giving an ?O.K.’ on verification by using information stored within the software. The student, Chris Hill, postulated in his honors thesis that most biometrics systems contained data derived from the facial

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I feel that i have been somewhat neglecting the blog of late, so perhaps it is time for an update… After any trip to the USA, i am a bit of a vegetable until the jetlag works its way out of my system – this usually involves many many late nights staying up until 0200

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http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=222240&Y=965600&A=Y&Z=4 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mountains/sandwood.htm http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kinlochbervie/sandwoodbay/ …the only slight problem is the lack of road, but then, that’s the whole point. 😎

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Sounds a bit like to old BANTER tool I wrote, without the smarts: If Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages, then SOCAT is the Swiss Army chainsaw of, uh, shell/networking tools. Socat works by connecting the input and output of two files together – where file can be a socket, or a

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http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tcl+Error+During+Template+Execution%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sun+proprietary%22+confidential

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this is the first and only interesting thing i have seen come out of big brother: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/people/big_brother/spencer_conversation.shtml

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http://www.meyerweb.com/other/humor/pshift.html

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the flight back was terrible. the bulkhead seat that i was assigned was not viable; about 3 hours into the flight i got cramped and coulf not sit in it any more because it was crushing my pelvis from side-to-side. i spent the remainder of the flight spending short stints in the chair, walking around

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just finishing up here at MTV B29 – the SunLabs building that used to be my HQ when I, too, was a Labs employee. Spent yesterday in a whirl ; more TLC break out session in the morning, then tried to locate a colleague (Iain) who relocated to the USA a few years ago. No

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