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A keylogger inside your Dell laptop? The Department of Homeland Security mysteriously quiet on the subject? Woah! You should read this.I won’t tell if you don’t
The EFF explains another strike-out for Digital Rights Management and Copy Protection: AACS for BluRay & HD-DVD. Sometimes I wonder if they even have a “clue phone” at the companies where they dream up new, totally flawed DRM ideas like this one. Either way, if it ever rings, no one’s...An Open Letter to the ISSA
TO: President – David M. Cullinane, CPP, CISSP Vice President of Membership – Ronald E. Helsley, CISSP Vice President of Marketing – Anne Rogers, CISSP, PMP ISSA Membership Services FROM: Eric Wallace, non-member In the course of over a year, my feelings towards the Information Systems...No wonder we don’t feel any safer yet
The latest news from the people in the U.S. government who’re paid to protect her citizens should frighten us as much as 9/11: The TSA Lied RFID...More poop
In case you didn’t already feel that the US government doesn’t have a thought of her citizens privacy in mind, there’s more news today: The former “chief privacy officer” of privacy-invaders Claria Corp. (formerly Gator) has been appointed to the DHS’ new “Data...Oh, poop
When something hits the fan at a company that stores and sells data about you, the courts may turn a blind eye when you become a victim of identity theft. So let me get this straight: I can sue Mickey-D’s if they sell me a cup of hot coffee—exactly what I asked for—and I pour it onto myself...About Me
My name is Eric Wallace. I'm quite fond of coffee, snorkel masks, hacking, recreational therapy, alternative uses for spam, and twelve-tone improvisation. Some of these things are true, but I'm not telling you which.
