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- Radio silence: a sign of the times.
I wish I could say it's been quiet over here, but it's actually been relentlessly busy for Lyssa and I down here in DC. I think I overextended myself a little the weekend
- MySpace selling user data on the open market.
MySpace , one of the biggest and best known social networking websites on the Net has announced that they'll be putting volumes of their users' data for sale on the open m
- Legal battles over unwarranted search and seizure at the borders are spinning up.
For a couple of years now the Customs and Border Patrol of the United States has had the legal authority to confiscate the laptops of people entering the country to perfor
- Leave nothing to chance.
Something that I keep meaning to write about is the topic of practical data backups - how to back your data up in such a way that you won't go bonkers trying to manage it,
- What hath the fabulists wrought?
It's long been said that science fiction predicts, or at least inspires some of the things which we take for granted every day. While the exact origins of the genre could
- This isn't quite a William Gibson/Near Stephenson cyberpunk world, but you can see the lights of it from here.
There's a certain feeling a system admin gets when they find out that one of their boxen has been pwned . You can't really compare it to anything else but it seems to comb
- OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator notes and roll-up post.
While reading the files in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/ I got it in my head to see if anyone else had spent any time reverse engineering the OCZ NIA , or at least had
- Cutting the power doesn't necessarily mean that memory is cleared.
It has long been a piece of grassroots wisdom that when the power to your computer goes dead, you're up a certain creek without a means of propulsion: Whatever you were do
- Confiscation and examination of electronics at the border intensifies.
It would appear that the confiscation and analysis of personal electronics at the US border is intensifiying and that people are starting to get up in arms about it. It's
- Do engineers make good terrorists?
According to two sociologists at Oxford University, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, the mindset of a professional terrorist and the mindset of a professional engineer a
- Let this be a lesson to everyone...
Always double-check what machine you're working on. And always, always make sure your backups are good! In the state of Alaska, a sysadmin at the department of revenue acc
- An interesting method of data visualisation.
Data visualisation is a process in which the bits of a given data field are displayed in a graphical format to help the analyst find patterns or anomalies in the data. For
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