Collaborate Disseminate
In a breathtaking move of transparency, the White House has come forward to reveal the head of its COVID-19 policy and response coordination all along. Behind the scenes, held as a tight secret until now, was the highly decorated and very well known Ge… Continue reading White House Reveals Secret Head of COVID-19 Policy
The Citizen Lab April 3rd, 2020 report broke the news on Zoom using weak encryption and gave this top-level finding: Zoom documentation claims that the app uses “AES-256” encryption for meetings where possible. However, we find that in each… Continue reading Simple Illustration of Zoom Encryption Failure
Despite my best efforts to stop the practice of using such a phrase, I find people sometimes still say cloud computing is all about “cows not pets”. What they mean to say is in the harsh world of cloud you shoot the vulnerable instead of ca… Continue reading Murder Your Darlings
Recently I pointed out in a blog post that the Zoom CEO was the VP of Engineering at Cisco who left to start a direct competitor because, according to him, he was unhappy about the speed he could operate at. Being secure, to be frank, is about manageme… Continue reading Comparison of WebEx Security Versus Zoom Shady Practices
Years ago I won the TSA competition for security slogans. I’m not proud, especially because I didn’t enter it and nobody told me my slogan had won until an external investigator pointed out that someone borrowed it from my 2006 blog post an… Continue reading COVID19 Security Slogans
It’s pretty clear from a series of rapid and unfortunate missteps by Zoom that there’s something fundamentally wrong with the company. We already knew the origin story didn’t sound great. A VP of Engineering at WebEx, after being acqu… Continue reading Safer Alternatives to Zoom
Today is National Vietnam War Veteran’s Day, set on March 29th because in 1973 it was the last day American combat troops were in the Republic of Vietnam. The White House in 2012 gave a Presidential Proclamation to create a national day for Vietn… Continue reading Red and Green Ballots: How the CIA Poisoned Vietnam’s 1955 Presidential Elections
All the talk lately I hear in America about a necessity of calling a virus by Asian origins to play racist blame games instead of saying COVID-19 or even 2020 pandemic (both obviously superior choices) has started to remind me of the 1960s CIA “t… Continue reading Kipling on COVID-19 in America: “You Can Not Hustle the East”
I see reporters trying to find a normal angle when they write about a very abnormal announcement today on American risk management during a pandemic: …a new plan to reopen swaths of the country shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic via a targeted… Continue reading White House Proposes America Try To “Sundown Town” COVID-19
A poem written in 1890 by Winston Churchill Oh how shall I its deeds recount Or measure the untold amount Of ills that it has done? From China’s bright celestial land E’en to Arabia’s thirsty sand It journeyed with the sun. O’er… Continue reading The Influenza, 1890