Comment Re:Thanks! (Score 1) 216
"I know the book has pissed some people off, especially when I take on their particular sacred cows (e.g., intrusion detection)."
"Sacred cows" have nothing to do with it. The book just isn't that interesting.
Comment Richard Bejtlich's Observation of CDX 2009 (Score 1) 219
Richard Bejtlich from the TaoSecurity Blog was invited by NSA's Tony Sager to visit the CDX in person:
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2009/05/thoughts-on-2009-cdx.html
Bejtlich mentions that CDX participants were given a budget for the exercise. This means it cost them "marks" (in exercise language) to replace the Windows images NSA provided with alternative systems like FreeBSD or Linux. That decision caused the team to have less resources for other tasks.
The Army didn't win just because they used Linux. Bejtlich posts reasons why they won here:
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2009/05/lessons-from-cdx.html
Comment Linked pdf is not the result of the 60 day study (Score 1) 133
Watch for a report from Melissa Hathaway, who is leading the effort. The linked
Comment Association of Former Information Warriors (Score 1) 426
As a result of this discussion, the Association of Former Information Warriors was created.
LinkedIn Group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1847393
Blog:
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Comment Only Free Alternatives (Score 1) 2
Yeah, but the problem is that they're even taxing digital downloads so Netflix, iTunes might not even work. The good news is that since tax is a percentage of price, if price is $0 so is the tax. So Hulu might be an alternative to TV, Skype, iChat, Google Video might be alternatives to phones, but it'll be hard to avoid the tax altogether.
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