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Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Darkreading has an article on Malware-Driven Child Porn.  While child porn is definitely bad, and anyone doing it should be punished - there is no question about that - it is not as simple as many people make it to be. Being in possession of child porn does not (and should not) mean that you’re doing it. There are so many ways that child porn can end up on one’s computer. The article mentions malware, but simply browsing to some websites might be enough to cache such content - and the websites need not have visible child porn.

The person featured in the article lost his job and his family as a result of this malware infection. How many victims will it take until the witch hunt is over?

Paul Ewald gave a talk at TED about how can we make harmful organisms more mild. Today’s pharmaceutical research and products work on fighting evolution of harmful organisms. His suggestions is that this is mostly wrong and that we should instead be identifying ways to make evolution work for us and make it happen. Of course he describes a few studies to prove the point.

I wonder how this applies to other areas of study, like Infosec. While some might see Infosec as a technology problem, it is in fact mostly a human problem in the end of the day.

“Context over dogma” as BMW like to put it …

Lacoste’s ad for Roland Garros 2008 & 75th anniversary celebration:

I <3 futuristic visor.

quoting Steve Jobs:

“Next time you’re in Malta and you need an IPhone 3G…” .. next time you’re in Malta offer me a beer please.

Go buy it @ 199$

Quchjaj qoSlIj!

This is crap. The shirt is nice.. the people at the airport, not so nice

The presentation at Shmoocon:
“Virtual Worlds, Real Exploits”