This is what I posted over at Web Worker Daily in response to a great post by Mike Gunderloy, “OpenID: A Contrarian View“.
I have to confess that as closely as I follow and often espouse the value of OpenID, I’m a complete hypocrite as I don’t use it day-to-day. I like OpenID more as a [...]

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While reading the article, “Brits risk card fraud with slack security“, I was struck again by the confusion around the various types of fraud and what falls into the bin of “identity theft”.  The article holds no surprises for anyone that’s ever watched the general public interact with their cards on and offline.  Hence, it [...]

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The HD format war continues though now the battle is more about whether there needs to be a “format” or not.  Discs are on their way out, we all know this is coming, but it may be coming even sooner than I’d imagined.  The digital-haves may skip BluRay for movies and go straight to digital.  [...]

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Got this in an email for posting up my picture of Phormtaiqr on Spock.com: 
“Spock users have flagged and deleted a picture which you contributed to Tim Renshaw’s search result. Flagging and deletion occurs for a number of reasons. Sometimes it is because information is factually incorrect, sometimes it is because contributions are inappropriate. For [...]

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Been too busy working on a super secret project that hopefully will morph into an important part of my future to really spend much time posting here, but couldn’t pass up this opportunity to vent some curmudgeonly steam.
Saw this article on a super smart guy researching whether or not Abraham Lincoln may have suffered from [...]

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So I’ve finalized my plans to attend the RSA Show again this year.  Will be the first time I’ve been there not attached to a vendor exhibiting on the show floor.  Should be liberating!
I’ll be networking as I pursue several avenues of opportunities for my “next gig”.  Good news is that there is a lot [...]

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How often do you need to crack something, really?  Once is all you need.
Information Week has this story on Blu-Ray Copy Protection Breached and the response from the BD+ encryption provider has me scratching my head.
“BD+ is a security response system designed to react to security attacks, not prevent them entirely. As part of this [...]

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This is the first of what will likely become a series and so categorized as a Rant:
OK, so this is the last example of the day and nothing against Rafe, his post is just the last straw over the last couple days, where I’ve heard that how fast a browser opens really, really matters to [...]

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A friend asked me about IronKey today and my first recollection was that I stopped by their booth last year at RSA. So I initially responded that far as I could remember, it was just another secure USB storage play. But since he was asking, I figured I would revisit it, especially when [...]

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We are well into the era of Web 2.0 with social networking all the rage.  At work, we are using an increasing number of web applications and services.  Consequently, we are spreading around an incredible amount of sensitive information about our families, employers, associates and ourselves.  Amazingly, we have made no real gains in creating [...]

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