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Arthur Laffer WSJ Article – miss this at your own risk!

Tim — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:53:12 +0000

Arthur Laffer June 6, 2010 in WSJ: Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse

Majority says government a threat to citizens rights

Tim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:22:40 +0000

CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens rights

via CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens’ rights.

Maybe there is hope given that this apparently “astonishing poll” reflects the firmly held belief of the crafters of the U.S. Constitution. Government is an evil. A necessary evil, but evil all the same and is to be kept small and easy to stomp on when it starts to do what it must by its nature… restrict freedom of the individual.

Want to fix the economy? Want to fix healthcare?

Reduce the number of regulations everywhere.
Reduce taxes across the board.
Reduce all levels of government employment.
Break the unions in all government hiring so the weak and the lazy can actually be fired. (Throw in the completely evil NEA while you’re at it).
Introduce “loser pays” tort reform.

That would do for a start as there would be such a boom as hasn’t been seen since at least the post-WW2 or 1980s boom and would likely be even bigger than that. Then the problem just becomes keeping those that feel guilty for living in the greatest country ever on earth to keep from gaining power and undoing what makes it great. Once we leave this obamanation behind, let’s vow to never return. Let our rally cry be, “Remember Carter and the obamanation!”.

Week in the Cloud: Jan. 8, 2010

Tim — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:04:17 +0000

SandHill.com | Opinion : Week in the Cloud: Jan. 8, 2010.

Lists Secure Authentication SaaS players.

VistaPE: manual for a Windows Vista bootable USB?

Tim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:37:07 +0000

VistaPE: manual for a Windows Vista based PE.

CA myOneLogin Partner Page

Tim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:36:20 +0000

TriCipher, Inc. – CA.

Items I found interesting on December 21st

Tim — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment December 21st:

GTA4 DLC Sold "Less than Expected" – yeah, by the time DLC was released I'd already traded my GTA4 in and moved on.
Fall of the Lich King 3.3 Cinematic – WoW Geeks Unite!

Items I found interesting on December 17th

Tim — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment December 17th:

Australia Restores Some Sanity to Airport Screening – Particularly funny given that the morons at Atlanta Hartsfield have determined that folks with boarding passes that read "Bob" or "Rob" while their driver licenses or passports read "Robert" will be disallowed through security! Remember that government, union employee means you have to square the total uselessness and moronicism (yeah, probably just made that up) of that erstwhile "person".
Browser Add-On Lets You Give Back While Shopping Online – Wanna "give back"? Succeed fully. Take care of all your family first. Enough socialist, feel-good-and-completely-useless nonsense. Might as well give your money to the fraudulent Al Gore or his "sky is falling" lie-umvirate!
YouTube: Why Do We Watch? – Cuz you're losers! People really troll YouTube? Get a freakin' life! Need to be concerned when a seriously heavy online user (me) tells you to get a life.

Strong Authentication Not Strong Enough, says Gartner

Tim — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:24:00 +0000

Strong Authentication Not Strong Enough — InformationWeek.

December 14, 2009 05:05 PM

Two-factor authentication — used to protect online bank accounts with both a password and a computer-generated one-time passcode — is supposed to be more secure than relying on a single password.But Gartner Research VP Avivah Litan warns that cyber criminals have had success defeating two-factor authentication systems in Web browsing sessions using Trojan-based man-in-the-middle attacks.

A Gartner Research note written by Litan explains that in the past few months, Gartner has heard from many banks around the world that rely on one-time-password authentication systems. Accounts at these banks have been compromised by man-in-the-middle attacks — the report uses the term “man-in-the-browser” — despite the use of two-factor security.One technique that the fraudsters have been using to bypass security controls is call forwarding.

“[B]anks that rely on voice telephony for user transaction verification have seen those systems and processes compromised by thieves who persuade telecom carriers to forward legitimate user phone calls to the thief’s cell phone,” the report says. “These targeted attacks have resulted in theft of money and/or information, if the bank has no other defenses sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to their applications and customer accounts.”

A man-in-the-middle attack involves using software or hardware to intercept network traffic then send it to its destination so that the information can be used without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient.

In an e-mail, Litan said that the attacks have involved the Zeus Trojan and other customized malware.

The malware sometimes uses anti-forensic capabilities that re-write account balances in the user’s browser, so that the user believes his or her bank account has the funds it should, even through it is empty.

The Gartner report recommends addition defenses to monitor user behavior and/or transaction values, as well as out-of-band transaction verification.

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which issued a warning about attacks on commercial bank accounts in November, total losses as of October amounted to about $100 million so far this year.

Items I found interesting on November 25th

Tim — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment November 25th:

Stop blaming us –

Items I found interesting on October 8th

Tim — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment October 8th:

Google Voice to Be Supported on Verizon’s Android Phones – I'll definitely be watching this one. Hopefully someone will put Android on a sexy device.
Netflix Down; Users Search for Alternative Entertainment – Funny that Twitter search is referenced in checking on NetFlix being down. Far as outages and utility, I'll take NetFlix over the Twits.
Quoted: Windows 7 gets the Mossberg seal of approval – Maybe, but I'll still be sitting this one out for at least 6 months on both my XP and Vista based machines.
Twitter Down, Again, Just Like the Old Days (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo) – What?! and the world continued to spin? yawn.
RSA, VeriSign, Cloud, OTPs, and Token Necklaces –