As someone who has worked on the "other side of the aisle" (I worked at a healthcare startup as a production support and network engineer) I'd say absolutely, you should try to learn as much as you can about secure…
I believe you mean "White Hat Hacker"... I think everyone gets the gist of what you mean but just wanted to clarify in case someone's thinking you're a racist hating on "Whitie" or something :)
SOPA is but a battle in a war. The "war" is the corruption in the US Congress. Go check out what Larry Lessig is doing nowadays... he's trying to fight the war, not the battle. His comments on why he's "MIA" in the SOPA…
What's the information security posture on these things like? What I mean is, what was considered "secure" in 1977 (DES based encryption was state of the art back then, right?) would be considered laughable today... I…
Your grandfather was absolutely right... this post reminded me of something too in fact. Every single time I go into a doctor's office or a waiting room I look for a Smithsonian Magazine, because of how well it's…
I think the "creepy" factor of the images is probably due to the "uncanny valley"... Pixar fought this effect when they were first rendering humans "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D…
Well put sir. I "grew up" on Slashdot as well (started reading circa 1998 as I recall) and although it's definitely declined, there was a "golden age" of Slashdot when the comments were far more interesting than the…
As someone who has worked on the "other side of the aisle" (I worked at a healthcare startup as a production support and network engineer) I'd say absolutely, you should try to learn as much as you can about secure…
I believe you mean "White Hat Hacker"... I think everyone gets the gist of what you mean but just wanted to clarify in case someone's thinking you're a racist hating on "Whitie" or something :)
SOPA is but a battle in a war. The "war" is the corruption in the US Congress. Go check out what Larry Lessig is doing nowadays... he's trying to fight the war, not the battle. His comments on why he's "MIA" in the SOPA…
What's the information security posture on these things like? What I mean is, what was considered "secure" in 1977 (DES based encryption was state of the art back then, right?) would be considered laughable today... I…
Your grandfather was absolutely right... this post reminded me of something too in fact. Every single time I go into a doctor's office or a waiting room I look for a Smithsonian Magazine, because of how well it's…
I think the "creepy" factor of the images is probably due to the "uncanny valley"... Pixar fought this effect when they were first rendering humans "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D…
Well put sir. I "grew up" on Slashdot as well (started reading circa 1998 as I recall) and although it's definitely declined, there was a "golden age" of Slashdot when the comments were far more interesting than the…