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DEFCON–The Badge that says it all…
DEFCON 24 is just around the corner, and I happened to be clearing out a lot of stuff from my office. I decided to sell my old DEFCON badges, and this blog is a colorful, well described, shameless plug...
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The Nine Blind Men and the Elephant
In the world of computer, network and data security there is a tendency towards confirmation bias. Confirmation Bias is the tendency to search out, recall, favor and repeat information that confirms...
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The Human Vulnerability.
This is the first third of a much longer article that I have broken up and are re posting. In this first page we are looking at the underlying motives and problems that bring about computer privacy and...
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Recent post removed due to public objection
I will repost later after researching and documenting and adjusting my claims.
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My Chili Recipe
I think I first learned to make chili back in the middle seventies. I was living at my parent’s house (now MY house) in Huntington Beach, California. My mother was God’s own gardener. (ask anyone who...
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The person least discussed in computer security is YOU
How to protect yourself in the twenty first century. I have worked in the computer antivirus and computer security field for a number of years. I know rather a lot about the variety and value of...
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Why do I love the movie TOMORROWLAND?
Since so many of my friends hated this film and were willing to go out on a limb and explain why, I thought I might as well try to explain why I love it so much. First off– I am a film buff for many...
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What should I do?
I have been spending the last twenty years explaining issues of computer security to many many people. I write, I speak, you see me on TV or hear me on the radio. I am not exactly famous at this, but...
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WHAT?
What is it exactly that we are protecting you from? This has changed a great deal over time. The very nature of computing has changed a lot over the same time. At the very beginning, from my...
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Before you start Christmas Shopping Online
My name is David Perry and my entire adult life has been taken up advising people about computer security. At first I did this as a tech support agent for Norton Antivirus, then for McAfee, and so on....
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A Brief Glossary
A friend reading this blog said that it was too techy for them, and since I intend to write this for the general public, I am going to publish some primer articles. Here is a completely off the top of...
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The Difference between a News Story and the world in which you actually live.
We all see the stories, the headlines. And they grab our attention. This story is THE VERY BIGGEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED!!! But will it happen to you? Not bloody likely. Very few of us have...
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BLACK HAT and DEFCON (the belated draft posted unfinished)
There are a notable number of conferences each year that one attends in this business. I am lucky enough to have been a participant and speaker at many of them. This year I carried a press pass to...
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I never METADATA I didn’t like.
It’s about time for another Black Hat/DEFCON season, and I am going over my notes from last year. One of the most remarkable things in last year’s BH was the keynote speech by General Alexander, head...
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SCADA System attack: should you be concerned?
Here’s a rare chance to get a peek into the future. There is yet another malware attack on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems blogged about by...
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A Hemispheric Messaging Convention–and what the heck does that mean anyway?
I appeared on a panel at a recent ICANN conference, together with my old pals the APWG. We had been fighting the good fight for some years already. What do we hope to accomplish? There are a number of...
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Passwords and Keys and Future Shock
Hackers are into lockpicking. Every year at DEFCON there are lock picking contests and demonstrations, and you can buy the various tools (picks, bump keys, etc.) at Black Hat and DEFCON and many...
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Why is mobile different from previous computing systems?
Attacks tend to find the common denominator. What is the most common shared resource between the most devices under attack. For a long time this has been the Microsoft Windows operating system. The...
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Digital Dark Matter: The Unseen Forces That Influence Innovation
daav0:I wholeheartedly agree with this blogger about mass transit vs automatic cars, and about much else as well. Please enjoy this while I compose my next blog entry. Plenty to talk about! -DP...
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