This is disgusting. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227086.200-comment-dont-criticise-or-well-sue.html If you’re in the UK, stand up to the legal bullies. Ask your MP to change the libel laws to reverse the burden of proof, and only allow actual UK citizens (and not companies or associations – foreign or not) the ability to sue. I was once sued for defamation and…
Category: Rants
Pretty is not necessarily secure
I feel sorry for folks trying their hardest to be something they’re not. It’s time for me to put something down I’ve been saying at conferences for years. If you’re not a programmer or developer by trade, please don’t write software or web apps. Dreamweaver does not maketh you a programmer. Ajax is not a…
Texas School Board of Education ^W Dumbasses
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! Texas’ Board of Education will be ridiculed by pretty much everyone (including me in this post). I would make more fun of them if the consequence of their gross incompetence didn’t lead directly to irreparable harm to the next ten year’s worth of students who will be unemployable in any medical, bio medical, biology, DNA testing,…
The new dark ages are approaching
When I left for America, I was surprised at how few places accepted electronic payment methods compared to our experience in Australia. By the time we left the USA barely two years later, that was not a problem – almost everywhere took cards. Except … now, we’re back in Australia, and things have gone backward….
Feelings of Rejection
In other news, all my talks for OSCON were rejected again. Why did I bother? I should have paid attention my last year’s rant. Most likely, I will have to give up on submitting papers to certain open source developer’s conferences as honestly, why bother doing the work of doing the research, creating the paper…
Fucktard drivers
What is it with “sporty” coupes and their drivers? We were nearly killed coming home from the hospital by 8CR J60, a Black Infinity of some description. There’s a complete fucktard behind the wheel, who will hopefully get a nice moving violation from the police tomorrow. I hope with all my heart that this is…
Final score: OSCON 4/234, Black Hat 5/92, DefCon 1/118. AppSecurity: 10/444 == ~Statistically insignificant
A little while ago, I wrote a dejected post saying that OSCON, Black Hat, and Defcon all missed the greatest opportunity to speak to the right folks about securing their apps. Well, with the final schedules of Black Hat and Defcon up, we have: Fear – Pretty much every talk Uncertainty – you betchya Doubt…
W Chicago – Do not stay
I am at the SANS GSSP second face to face in Chicago (photos soon). SANS have chosen a nice hotel, the W Lakeshore right on Lake Michigan. Until 10 pm tonight, it was awesome. But then at 10 pm… It was spoiled by the Richter level 4.0-4.9 bass drivers (seriously! – we’re feeling it in…
Why I will have a job in 2035, or how to write a successful talk submission
In 2035, I will be 65. Most likely, unless I was to take up photography or cat breeding, I will most likely still be in this industry doing pretty much what I’m doing today. Why? I submitted a bunch of “how to fix” talks to OSCON (the unconverted) and Black Hat (the converted). I’ve spoken…
Good riddance to bad rubbish
One of the worst self-serving, money grubbing ($200m a year), homophobic, Teletubby hating (seriously!), hypocrites on the planet has died. Jerry Falwell dead at 73 This venal black heart tried to blame 9/11 on pagans, feminists and the (at least) 50% of the population who happen not to share his particularly hateful religionpolitics. He hid…