Way to try and build your own reputation by stealing mine there, Rene Van Den Bedem. If you’ve done a Google search for BabyDragon lately, you’ll see his blog and his ads and his referral links. Yeah. Rene isn’t authorized or permitted to use the BabyDragon name. That name is copyrighted and it’s mine. It […]
I’ve obviously not been very active lately. There’s a variety of reasons for that, not least among them the fact that I am sick and tired of people taking advantage of my generosity – and people in general. But that’s a separate post. This one is about the BabyDragon III. And here you thought it […]
So, I just watched Jacob Applebaum’s presentation at CCC (I’m catching up) and frankly, I haven’t seen a more shameful display of zealotry and laziness in quite some time. That’s not security expertise – that’s mostly pitching policy using iffy examples, which just undermines the political arguments. Open source does not magically make things more […]
There’s a whole cadre of people out there who are utterly convinced that modifying the PC BIOS in ways both good and evil is somehow new. It is not at all possible to be further from the truth – modifying the BIOS dates back to the original IBM PC. There were official IBM kits to […]
NOTE2: Holy crap lots of comments and I find out that the comment setup isn’t threading them properly so it’s a BEAR to try and make sense of. I am truly and terribly sorry about that. Talk about counter-productive to a conversation! Trying to see if there’s some way to fix this. NOTE: Approving comments […]
As you’ve certainly heard by now, Cisco is buying Whiptail, who makes storage. This comes right on the heels of VMware essentially parking NSX on John Chambers front lawn, which comes after Cisco EOL’d the Nexus 1000v, and you get the idea. There’s been a lot of very transparent product-sniping going on with no signs […]
One, I hate writer’s block. So this post may be slightly confusing. Two, I could, you know, blah blah “140” but you know what? That’s a cop out sometimes, and this is one of those times. And the Internet at large seems to be rather… confused and/or not understanding my stance on discrimination. Not “discrimination” […]
So lately we’ve been talking about two of my favorite words, stability and resilience. And mostly how my stance is that you can’t have one without the other – because that’s been my experience, without exception. When you take away stability, the resilience goes away because multiple components fail in parallel. When you take away […]
So @AndiMann @jamesurquhart @f3ew and I have been having a bit of a discussion on Twitter regarding resilience, change control, deployment cycles and such and I really can’t fit my thoughts on the matter into 140 characters. It is a bit of a complicated topic, but not as complicated as folks keep saying in various […]
Another Oracle Open World keynote, another pack of lies from Larry Ellison. Bad enough that the still blind (dangit, why does my prescription have to suck so much?!) guy is actually writing a blog post about it. Before people start spreading more lies as truth. Mind, I’m not there, so this is an incomplete dismantling of […]