An Information Security Place

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is a fellow blogger at Computerworld, and typically drives me a little nuts with his "Microsoft-is-evil" / "Linux is God’s OS" posts (it drives me a little crazy when people take such a one-sided rabid stand on the OS issue – I am all for ideals, but Steven just goes too far sometimes).  However, his latest post is funny as all get out.  He posts a fake news release that is making some announcements of goings-on in the technology world where Linux doesn’t exist.  It is pure genius, and I busted a gut reading it.

So Steven, though I grind my teeth sometimes when I read your stuff, and even though I was actually drinking coke when I was reading this, you have earned a highly coveted OJ Award from An Information Security Place.  Congrats!

Vet

Link to MP3

Show notes:

Just Jim and I today talking about news and adding some ranting (as usual).

Segment 1: InfoSec News Update and various ranting

• WPA – TKIP Cracked – Erik Tews and Martin Beck
• Yet another Acrobat Vuln
• BarCode Exploitation – Tommy Joe Tidwell – Stole $1 million of merchandise and sold it on eBay
• Duplicate Keys from Photo
• McCain and Obama Hacked by Unknown Foreign Entity
• Discussion / Rant – The Uselessness of TSA

Segment 2:

• Geek Toys – BlueAnt SuperTooth 3 Review
• Consultants Corner – Importance of Physical Security
• We bid you a fond farewell

Music Notes:

• Intro/Outro – Digital Breaks – “Therapy”
• Segway 1 – Naked Gun – “A.D.D.”
• Zinger – JunkTones – “Welcome To the USA”
• Segway 2 – Kickstart – “Bouncey”

Vet