CyberChrist Meets Lady Luck
...By and large the DefCon II hackers are what I call 'good hackers' who hack, and maybe
crack some systems upon occasion, but aren't what I refer to as Information Warriors in
the bad sense of the word. This group claimed to extol the same position as most of the
underground would: the Pentagon sniffing crackers - or whoever who is assaulting
thousands of computers on the net - must be stopped....
Mad As Hell: Switching to Mac
...Things used to work. And this is exactly why I am coming to subscribe to the view that indeed, the WinTel hegemony is a threat to the national economic security of any organization or nation-state that relies up it. In the coming weeks I am going to keep a diary of an experiment that I began in my company at 6PM GMT-5, April 29, 2005.
An experiment predicated upon an hypothesis that the WinTel platform represents the
greatest violation of the basic tenets of information security and has become, indeed, a
national economic security risk. I do not say this lightly, and I have never been a
Microsoft Basher, either. I do not and will not dis any one company without a fair bit of
explanation, justification and supportive evidence or experience....
An experiment predicated upon an hypothesis that the WinTel platform represents the
greatest violation of the basic tenets of information security and has become, indeed, a
national economic security risk. I do not say this lightly, and I have never been a
Microsoft Basher, either. I do not and will not dis any one company without a fair bit of
explanation, justification and supportive evidence or experience....