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SolarWinds Breach is the Rule, Not an Exception

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Davi Ottenheimer

A new article about the philosopher Wittgenstein’s passion for reading crime stories has an important insight into both the man and his methods: That a crime has been committed, [The Maltese Falcon author] Hammett knew, does not necessarily mean that a… Continue reading SolarWinds Breach is the Rule, Not an Exception→

Posted in history, Security, Security Bloggers Network

Deepfakes are Literally Security Theater

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

Have you been to a theater lately? Probably not because of the pandemic, but if you remember when we all used to go (including movie theaters, of course) we would watch performance art and like it (assuming it was well done and believable, of course). … Continue reading Deepfakes are Literally Security Theater→

Posted in Security, Security Bloggers Network

Kahneman Himself Clarifies Thinking Systems 1 and 2

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

Sometimes I am asked to review or explain the Kahneman framework of thinking systems he wrote a book about. I suppose this comes up most when I describe the same things in many of my presentations, such as my last one given at RSAC: My point usually ha… Continue reading Kahneman Himself Clarifies Thinking Systems 1 and 2→

Posted in Security, Security Bloggers Network

The Death of Double-Agent George Blake

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

In 1952 the American OPERATION STRANGLE in the Korean War… …dropped 600K tons of bombs on DPRK and 2 million civilians perished. It had reverse effect of expected and cauterized resistance. One of the most well-known yet least connected stories to such… Continue reading The Death of Double-Agent George Blake→

Posted in history, Security, Security Bloggers Network

Goebbels Never Said THAT!

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

There’s been a problem on the Internet for a long time, as we all know, that data integrity gets ignored by security professionals. Cliff “Cuckoo Egg” Stoll in 1995 infamously called this “Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana“, which everyone basically ignored… Continue reading Goebbels Never Said THAT!→

Posted in history, Security, Security Bloggers Network | Tagged poetry

Did Shannon Alone Invent Our Future?

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

There’s an important bit of knowledge buried in an interesting new article about the history of modern communication: A portmanteau of “binary digit,” a bit could be either a 1 or a 0, and Shannon’s paper is the first to use the word (though he said th… Continue reading Did Shannon Alone Invent Our Future?→

Posted in history, Security, Security Bloggers Network

Are Coders Poets?

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

Everyone at some point reaches the obvious conclusion that putting keyboard to screen (pen to paper, brush to parchment, chisel to wood and marble, etc) is similar across disciplines. Is a coder a poet, asks a fresh long article in the news. I consider… Continue reading Are Coders Poets?→

Posted in Security, Security Bloggers Network | Tagged poetry

Social Media Protocol for Evidence of War Crimes

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

Berkeley Law announced the first global protocol has been set to aid in using social media for war crime investigations. Launched in 2016, the center’s Investigations Lab is the first university-based open source investigations unit to discover and ver… Continue reading Social Media Protocol for Evidence of War Crimes→

Posted in Security, Security Bloggers Network

Nazi Enigma Machine Discovered on Seabed

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

Recently I wrote about an Enigma encryption machine that showed up in a pigsty. The argument back then surely was nobody would find it. Now we can add a new twist to the list of places thought safe for disposal: an Enigma was found in the Baltic sea. “… Continue reading Nazi Enigma Machine Discovered on Seabed→

Posted in history, Security, Security Bloggers Network

Germany’s Anti-Semitic Phonetic Alphabet

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Davi Ottenheimer

Interesting development in Germany to restore phonetics that were erased by the Nazis Before the Nazi dictatorship some Jewish names were used in the phonetic alphabet – such as “D for David”, “N for Nathan” and “Z for Zacharias”. But the Nazis replace… Continue reading Germany’s Anti-Semitic Phonetic Alphabet→

Posted in history, Security, Security Bloggers Network | Tagged poetry

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