Pit Bulls and Profiling
Malcolm Gladwell· (probably best known as the pop-sociologist author of The Tipping Point·) has an excellent piece in this week’s New Yorker· on what pit bulls can teach us about profiling·. The...
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Via Dylan Thurston: Witness Stand. Important reminder regarding grammar.
View ArticleClimate Dread
Via mariuss’ weblog (discovered accidentally, provides an unusually high signal-to-noise ratio for a random blog), this Canadian article entitled Coping with Climate Dread. Read it. Then read...
View ArticleBad Passwords
Interesting article by everyone’s hero Bruce Schneier on real-world passwords. Schneier analyzed the spoils of a phishing attack on MySpace that resulted in the collection of 34,000 usernames and...
View ArticleHiring Hackers
Via the man who should be national security advisor, this fascinating email exchange between a “hacker” and a congressional staffer. The staffer wanted his college GPA “fixed” to improve his grad...
View ArticleAirport Snooping
I’ve always wondered why ill-intentioned hackers don’t set up fake free WiFi hotspots in public places like airports to collect passwords and other personal information. As it turns out, they do:...
View ArticlereCAPTCHA
Via Tikirobot, reCAPTCHA. Brilliant: Over 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved every day by people around the world. reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books from the Internet...
View ArticleTerrorist Hashing?
The Hash House Harriers is “an international group of social, non-competitive running and drinking clubs.” I participated many years ago in college (e.g.), although the Princeton Group is probably more...
View ArticleSecurity and Privacy
It’s probably impossible to get too much of Bruce Schneier, although I honestly wouldn’t mind if he stopped Friday Squid Blogging. His latest Wired.com article on the false dichotomy between security...
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