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How To Be A Geek Goddess 349

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @02:05PM from the Ramia-goddess-of-corn-chips-power-strips-and-motherboards dept.

stoolpigeon writes "The geek world is dominated by those of the male persuasion. For those of us working in a technology related field, or who spend a considerable amount of time pursuing high tech leisure, we usually find women to be in the minority. I've seen considerable discussion over the years on how to change this imbalance but I think it is safe to say that right now that it remains. Many women are interested in using technology, they just don't want to dive in to quite the same depth. Or they may not be interested in the way most men approach it. Columnist and tech-writer Christina Tynan-Wood has attempted to come to their rescue with her book How To Be A Geek Goddess." Read below for the rest of JR's review.

Comment Re:Securing your own assets (Score 1) 543

by tachyon13 on Wednesday March 12, 2008 @04:51PM (#22732528) Attached to: Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions

This was all done by contractors, mind you, and it got done because we liked what we were doing, took pride in doing a good job of it, and we had support from the squadron commander.

Once the MAJCOM started taking control of the security stuff, our defensive posture went to crap.

I have to say that the aggressor squadron teams that'd come in and attack the network knew their stuff. And of course they were able to break in every time.

Most importantly, make it clear that their job is security, and not paper pushing.

Exactly, exactly. I find it hard to believe that Gen. Lord is not aware of this, so I have to assume that the answers are of the 'PR Filtered" variety.

Also, I'm not sure how he can say "Certainly the balance between having access to do our mission and having robust security is an issue where not everyone agrees on just how much to restrict or how much to allow." Someone needs to read up on his regs:

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/checklist/index.html

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/index.html

http://www.nsa.gov/snac/

Etc. The issue is not that it's "not everyone agrees on how much to restrict." I think the regs and best practices out there are pretty clear. It's a issue of "how much do we want to comply with restricted access methodolgies and regulations." So basically, Cyber Command will be just a repackaged example of base network security that you described above, except this time it's not going to be an AFSPC base, or an AMC/ACC, it going to be a huge target called 'Cyber Command"....

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