Is it any wonder we can't put a working response together for a Class 5 Hurricane?

DHS: Our Planless Leader - CSO Magazine - September 2005

While the noise of the BlackHat security conference has faded into the everyday din of working, many people have allowed themselves to forget the purpose of Mike Lynn's resignation from ISS, and subsequent presentation was all about.

Now, here comes the next new Cisco Vulnerability, which provides an attacker remote exploit capabilities to their (dare I point it out) FIREWALL IOS code!!!

Ha.

(ooh, I need more of that)

Ha! Ha. (in the sound of Nelson Munch from the Simpsons...)

So, it wasn't a big deal? It's not important? When your router starts routing packets to the ol' bit bucket in the sky, and you can't figure it out, or it simply stops functioning all together, and you need to reflash the memory, you might want to then go read the WHOLE story, and understand why you may wish to change vendors...

Just my 2¢, YMMV.

Who Owns YOUR ROUTERS? New Cisco flaw could pose threat to Net - So, was Mike Lynn wrong now?

Stupid Creative Labs.... Funny.... Shipped a worm with their MP3 Players.

Creative MP3 Players Shipped with Windows Virus

Wicked Cool toy....

I got to see one of these the other day, and was beside myself.

This is small, light, and fast to operate.

It shuts down quickly and has a brilliant display. It ran at high screen resolutions flawlessly.

At under 3lbs, and small, it's amazing... I want one for traveling.

mobile multimedia projector | XR-1X

For those of you who travel... check these guys out... I just got off a flight from near my house, to Nashvegas...

It was nice... no lines, no security hassles, just a nice clean, flight on a Piper Navajo Chieftan... it was sweet.

I normally don't sleep on airplanes, and I slept for almost an hour of the hour and fifteen minute flight. For those of you who know how big I am, I got to stretch out, there was only one other passenger, and for $240.00, it beat Delta's price to the same city.

Moveover, I flew into John C. Tune Airport, and Hertz had my car waiting... I just walked off the plane, through the FBO (fixed base operator) and got into my car...

Simple, easy, affordable. The way air travel should be.

Arrive Air Service: About Arrive

This is an additional outrage...

I hope that those people that know technology will step up, and find a way to lobby against this...

The DOJ is trying to get a 'finger' on everyone, so that they can watch your internet habits...As if Carnivore wasn't enough of a intrusion... now we should have "tappable" ISP configurations for the DOJ?

And what's worse, is the DOJ is trying to push the FCC to be the "Bad Guy", by citing a statute designed for telephony networks...

I'm exasperated...

EFF: Breaking News - More attempts to remove your privacy...

$10 hacksaw - Government Procured: $3,200.27
50¢ blade - Government Procured: $12.98
10¢ of duct tape - Government Procured: $1.76
Trip to Space - $1.5 Billion

A hacksaw suitable for EVA, so you won't hurt yourself, or punture your EVA suit... Priceless???

Duct Tape Rules!!!

Duct Tape Rules!

You may wish to view some of the things I want to get for the holidays... (any holiday you get me one of these is fine.)

Thanks for lookin...

My Geek Wishes

Dagmar... What can I say... Perfectly summarized the problem.... Everyone in IT should read this...

There has been an almost unbelievable amount of hubbub lately about the research that Mike Lynn gave a demonstration of at the BlackHat conference last week, and there's been a positively dizzying amount of "spin" applied to the media. Let me say one thing to everyone reading this, right up front. What Lynn uncovered is a serious issue, probably actually more serious than what the media is making it out to be. While coverage on the issue is good (and useful to both "sides") the lack of actual accurate reporting on the issue isn't helpful to anyone.

Part of the problem is that apparently, outside of the list of BlackHat attendees, there's not that many people running around who truly understand what Lynn's research uncovered. Lynn did not reveal an "exploit" in the usual sense. In fact, Lynn of his own volition has been playing his cards fairly close to his chest on this, and omitted most of the technical details of the problem from his presentation in order to assure that no one would be able to easily "follow in his footsteps". Lynn, it can safely be said, was scared by what he discovered--scared enough that he has risked his livelihood not once but twice in order to be sure that should the technical aspects of what he's found not be resolved before someone with less respect for the continuation of the Internet figures it out for themselves, the network and security administrators of the world will have had time to take some steps to reduce the amount of damage done. It can no longer be thought of as a sure thing that just because a particular vulnerability could "break the Internet" that no one's going to try it just to see if it's really true. We have a rather excellent example in recent history that pretty much everyone is aware of by now... the MS Blaster worm which raged around the Internet wreaking rather unprecedented havok. Pretty much everyone on the Internet was either personally affected by this, or knows someone who was. Blaster made use of a vulnerability that had become rather common knowledge by the time it was released, but had already been known to many security professionals for months. The real problem that made things so painful and propagation of Blaster so widespread, was that for those months, Microsoft had been actively denying that there was ever a problem until Blaster forced them to admit it. Had system administrators been made aware of the issue and the meager steps needed to impede the spread of Blaster (which everyone implemented in a white-hot hurry once their networks were figuratively ablaze) the damage could have been much less indeed.

Cisco is not helping the issue, or I should say, Cisco's lawyers are not helping the issue. Cisco makes some really awesome products, and their technical people can't really be faulted for this one te... [ Read More (1.4k in body) ]

Mike Lynn's 'exploit', in plain (non-technical) English

Rattle has summarized the recent changes at Industrial Memetics very well.

I hope that all who read it, truly understand the gravity of the decisions made by all involved.

Lastly, I'd like to say that I fully support Mike Lynn, Industrial Memetics, and all who wish to make this world a safer, more beautiful, and more technological place.

[[ MemeStreams ]] Press Release 4/31/2005 - Industrial Memetics Circles the Wagons