OUTSMARTING THIEVES: Common Sense Advice from a Pro

Taking a common sense look at ways to keep your family safe and protect what is important to you. Part One of a 5-part series. Simple Ways to Outsmart Burglars  The statistics are mind-boggling. They say there is a burglary every twenty seconds in the US. The average property loss is nearly $2,300. All the while, less than […]

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February 27, 2017
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The Benefits of Upgrading to a Wireless Security Alarm System

Over the past 10 years, just about all of us have updated our technology, including our TVs, phones, and computers. But have you considered upgrading your security system?  If you have no idea when it was installed, it’s probably time to think about a system upgrade. Today’s wireless security systems have come a very long way […]

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February 17, 2017
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Read My Lips: Let’s Kill 0Day

0day is cool.  Killing 0day, sight unseen, at scale — that’s cooler. If you agree with me, you might be my kind of defender, and the upcoming O’Reilly Security Conference(s) might be your kind of cons. Don’t get me wrong.  Offense is critical.  Defense without Offense is after all just Compliance.  But Defense could use […]

May 13, 2016
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The Cryptographically Provable Con Man

It’s not actually surprising that somebody would claim to be the creator of Bitcoin.  Whoever “Satoshi Nakamoto” is, is worth several hundred million dollars.  What is surprising is that credible people were backing Craig Wright’s increasingly bizarre claims.  I could speculate why, or I could just ask.  So I mailed Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, “What the […]

May 4, 2016
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Validating Satoshi (Or Not)

SUMMARY: Yes, this is a scam.  Not maybe.  Not possibly. Wright is pretending he has Satoshi’s signature on Sartre’s writing.  That would mean he has the private key, and is likely to be Satoshi.  What he actually has is Satoshi’s signature on parts of the public Blockchain, which of course means he doesn’t need the private key and he […]

May 2, 2016
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I Might Be Afraid Of This Ghost

CVE-2015-7547 is not actually the first bug found in glibc’s DNS implementation.  A few people have privately asked me how this particular flaw compares to last year’s issue, dubbed “Ghost” by its finders at Qualys.  Well, here’s a list of what that flaw could not exploit: apache, cups, dovecot, gnupg, isc-dhcp, lighttpd, mariadb/mysql, nfs-utils, nginx, nodejs, openldap, openssh, […]

February 21, 2016
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