Dominic White

My tin foil, now covered in joyous spittle, reflects the news that I'm not crazy (and neither is the EFF or Tom). In reaction, SRWare provides Iron, which according to downloadsquad had none of the privacy invading evil zombies the German Federal Office for Information Security warned us about (you'll notice the warning is similar to mine, take *that* persistent GoogleUpdate process). If you really need another browser and aren't happy with the one, use Iron instead of Chrome at least.

Hitchcock got all fed up with nobody getting this XKCD, so he wrote a human readable breakdown of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). It's a good read, and certainly upped my dinner table conversation skills.

Ritasha Jethva, our Privacy & Data Protection competency lead added some nice tips to a publicity piece that made it otherwise more useful than it would have been. I'm republishing them here along with some other stuff I've found of late.

I was interested to see if my political leanings (as described by the Political Compass test) had shifted since having left University, gotten a job, started paying taxes, converted to Catholicism and having grown older.

It is interesting to note that my results are very similar to what they were in 2004, and less libertarian and economically right wing than they were in 2006. Me and Nelson Mandela are still home boys though.

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

Here's a set of training slides I put together for the CISSP networks & telecomms (domain 7) component. I'm using these to present to the InfoSec Group of Africa CISSP study group. I'm not a CISSP, but I know networks. While half the content is mine, the other half is stolen from many many places. It was all done in a hurry too. If you can improve them and promise to send changes back, I'll send you the source.

Apparently Forrester reckons Information/Data Architects and Information Security Experts are the Hottest roles in IT (note 'Hottest' is hotter than 'Extremely Hot'). 

First, let me preface this by saying I don't trust Google at all. Their entire business model is based on violating my privacy and for a security & privacy person who wears more tinfoil than most, this irks me. Google irks me to the extent that I have a separate Firefox profile just for the odd Google thing I may do, and I use Scroogle to deliberately anonymise my searches with the big eye. Why the rest of the world gets up in arms about warrantless wire-tapping by AT&T, and not explicit tapping on an arguably more important/sensitive medium confuses me. Imagine if your telco said they would give you a free phone line, but in exchange they would monitor all your calls and periodically have a telemarketer phone with offers you may be interested in? Beyond the irritation, the privacy outrage may even get the EFF's attention.

You know who you are :)