Alan Shimel from StillSecure
 was kind enough to have me as his featured guest on his podcast tonight. Alan is a great guy and a great blogger, and I am proud to call him one of my blogging buddies.
We were joined by Mitchell Ashley (a.k.a. Ed McMahon), the CTO of StillSecure, who seems like a great guy as well. He just started blogging, and you can find him at http://www.theconvergingnetwork.com/.Â
I just have to say that I had a great time tonight. The people over at StillSecure are a class act. As I 
mention in the podcast, I don’t get the usual line of BS from these guys. They tell you what is and what ain’t, and that is it. Nice people all around.
Thanks again to Alan and Mitchell.
Vet
Politics can be fun, and it can be real ugly, and often both at the same time. And in this digital age, everyone has a chance to get involved, including script kiddies that have a political axe to grind. Go read the story here. But what got me about this whole deal was this quote from Dan Geary, who runs Lieberman’s site:
“This is a direct disruption of a federal campaign,” he said. “I have to see us go to an era where security is primary instead of the primary focus being new and innovative ways to get the message out.”
Uhhh, that deserves a big “duh”. Dude, you run the website. I am sure you are an activist and want to get Senator Lieberman re-elected, but running the website and securing the website is your job. Frankly, that quote sounds more like something a politician would say rather than a web admin. If you don’t know that you are going to be dealing this kind of stuff, then the good senator hired the wrong guy. Sheesh.
Vet
…because you can read about it in the news, because it generally happens for the same reason (stupidity, mainly), and I get tired or writing about it. And the same would be the case on this new VA stolen desktop (also read here), except that this is twice for the VA, and I think this one holds more importance. Why? Glad you asked!
- Because this one, on the surface, seems like a targeted attack. This was not an average house robbery. This was stolen from a Unisys facility that was doing insurance collections for the VA. Far be it from me to start FUD, but I think there was some definite desire for this desktop because of the data it held (why was the data on a desktop, anyway???)
- This brings forward the point that you are just as responsible for your contractors security as you are your own.  The theft did not actually happen on a VA facility, but you can’t schluff off due diligence.
Vet
