Old, Yet Relevant - Schneier's 'The Security Mirage'

November 03, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Brilliant, Information Security, Theatre

Like many ideas, lessons and viewpoints, this nearly six year old description of the foibles of security at that time remain as baggage we labor to carry 72 months later...

Kottke, Laws of Scaling, Speed of Animals

October 26, 2015 by Marc Handelman in Scaling, All is Information, Brilliant, Science

Absolutely fascinating post over at Jason Kottke's Kottke.org site, illustrating the laws of scaling (in this case body size) and the speed of animals; clearly there are correllations to computational activity.

Mozilla To Release Track Protection →

September 25, 2015 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Brilliant, Web Security, Information Security

via Martin Brinkmann at the extraordinary GHacks blog, comes word of Mozilla Foundations' Firefox anti-tracking components slated for release in Firefox Stable 42 on November 3rd, 2015. Outstanding!