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Actually it has been for a couple of weeks.  I've had a pretty bad case of blogger burnout - there's been a number of blog worthy to...

Long time Internet Security guy Fred Cohen has some interesting thoughts on how AI can be less obnoxious [PDF]: The nature of the problem (...

And more importantly, which should you not trust?  This post is the fourth in a series on how to make your home network harder to attack.  ...

Who would have guessed a hundred years ago that Stanley Baldwin was right ?    I dunno - he looks a little Woodrow Wilsonish to me.  But if...

This post is the third in a series on how to make your home network harder to attack.  Here are links to posts one and two .  Post two intr...

Forget about the Internet and security for a moment - you already own something with a firewall.  Your car has one between the engine and th...

This was the best year ever for traffic here: 4.5M page views.  This brings the all-time total to 19.5M.  There's quite a market for fre...

17 years ago I put up my first post here.  Around the same time, ASM826 - my brother from another mother - put up his first post on his blog...

You know, this one here Dude, you've been coming around here for a long time asking to get added to the blog roll. And when I do add yo...

Well that's your problem , right there: Oracle engineers mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at a number of Community Health...

Maybe there's something in the water in Washington D.C. these days, but this is clearly A Very Good Thing Indeed : A bipartisan, bicamer...

Ulbricht was the guy who set up the "Dark Web" site The Silk Road.  I am a little conflicted about this. On the one hand, he made ...

Randal emails to point out that he's started a Substack .  It's pretty interesting.  Here's an example about trade unions : For ...

So their live streaming of the Mike Tyson fight last night was an unmitigated disaster.  But come on - you'd think that Netflix IT would...

So Youtube hates guns and is trying to demonitize shooting channels.  So one of the channels decided to follow the rules , with hilarious re...

Well, well, well : Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other t...

Well knock me over with a feather : The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from t...

Act the first: Web Security organization suffers data breach : A misconfigured MediaWiki web server allowed digital snoops to access members...

The Feral Irishman emails to saw that my post about the climate movie looked weird from his Windows computer.  He could watch the movie bu...

Lots of folks are posting about the Google AI fiasco, and how it shows that you can't trust Google's search results.  Um, we've ...