June 2010
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Be Careful What You Wish For
For months, the man police are accusing of gathering the ingredients to create volatile explosives mused – in person and online – about testing the capabilities of Toronto’s G20 security.
Friends say Byron Sonne talked about obtaining the “chemical precursors” to explosives “in an attempt to purposefully raise flags and get ‘the man’ to take a look at me… but no luck,” as he wrote on...
Secure Channel - Analysis - Security Turns Off... →
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[O]ne-half of the 500 security pros surveyed said social networks are among their top three biggest security risks.
Or, half of security pros don’t know what their biggest risks are. A social network is a website, nothing more, nothing less. The risk, as has been for years now, is excessive end-user privileges on a Windows desktop used to access the internet. Twitter,...
Writers, Ego, and Industry
I recently came across an editorial by Minnesota Native and New York resident Garrison Keillor. More accurately, I came across several responses lambasting Keillor’s editorial in the New York Times.
Back in the day, we became writers through the laying on of hands. Some teacher who we worshipped touched our shoulder, and this benediction saw us through a hundred defeats. And then an...
