More people dying in a fire: petroleum-based skin products to blame

An investigation has started to reveal that the practice of putting a distillate of petroleum (parrafin) on your body can lead to a very painful fiery death. Firefighter Chris Bell, who is a watch commander with West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, says the actual number of deaths linked to the creams is likely to […]

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SHA-1 versus SHA-2 performance tests

Moving to SHA256 has become an increasingly common topic ever since SHA-1 went through the bad news cycle of being vulnerable faster than brute-force. Even in cases where not relevant, such as authentication mechanisms (SCRAM), it feels like only a short time from now regulators will push a SHA-2 family as minimum requirement. For most […]

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2018 AppSec California: “Unpoisoned Fruit: Seeding Trust into a Growing World of Algorithmic Warfare”

My latest presentation on securing big data was at the 2018 AppSec California conference: When: Wednesday, January 31, 3:00pm – 3:50pm Where: Santa Monica Event Link: Unpoisoned Fruit: Seeding Trust into a Growing World of Algorithmic Warfare Artificial Intelligence, or even just Machine Learning for those who prefer organic, is influencing nearly all aspects of […]

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Locally Decode Windows Administrator Password for AWS Instance

If you’ve run into that awkward moment in AWS when they ask you to submit your key into some suspicious-looking web interface in order to receive the password for your newly created instance, this quick command is for you. After an instance is created and running, right-click on the instance and select “Instance Settings” then […]

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The Chaos

by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (Netherlands, 1870-1946) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. […]

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This Day in History — 1886 Haymarket Affair

On this day in 1886, a Civil War veteran from Texas, Albert Richard Parsons, was accused along with several others of a conspiracy to murder in Chicago, Illinois. Albert had served in the Civil War under the units in Texas commanded by his brothers. First under a captain in the infantry and then as cavalry […]

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“My Lost Youth” by Longfellow

A curious thing about writing a poem is how it can suggest to the reader a topic while subtly communicating a tangent. Recently I was being peppered by questions of attribution in security that reminded me of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem: My Lost Youth OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by […]

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Could truck drivers lose their jobs to robots?

Next time you bang on a vending machine for the bag of sugary bits that refuse to fall to the bottom, ask yourself if restaurants soon will be just robots putting every food-serving human out of work. Maybe it’s true that humans have no future in service industries. Maybe driving around all day is going […]

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Today in History: 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation

The American Civil War, initiated in 1860 by those intending to use violence to stop abolition of slavery, was in its third year when President Lincoln made his famous Emancipation Proclamation: …all persons held as slaves [within the rebellious states] are, and henceforward shall be free. His phrasing had been developed over many months and […]

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Kiwicon X: Pwning ML for Fun and Profit

I presented “Pwning ML for Fun and Profit” at Kiwicon X When: Friday, Nov 18th, 2016 at 14:15 Where: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Everyone is talking ML this and AI that as if they expect some kind of Utopian beast to be waiting just behind the next door and whisk us all away to a […]

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I should blog more again, I know

Thanks to everyone recently telling me they miss my blog posts. To be honest I have a queue of written posts unreleased because I went through one of those writing phases where erratic Tweets seemed like an easier public legacy than slogging through full paragraphs and illustrations. For six years I wrote a post every […]

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