Archives for March 2002

I need one of these by my office.

A long time ago, a Vietnamese boy living next door told me that treading in dog shit brought good luck.

Yup, that’s what we need.   Congress fixing the internet.  Congress to Enter ICANN Fray. While Internet domain bigwigs meet in Africa, members of the U.S. Congress — concerned over security, accountability and, gasp, politics — plan oversight hearings. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]

Dunno if this is good or bad.  Feds Rule PayPal Is Not A Bank [Slashdot]

Interesting.  I strongly feel that we should continue to expand the military.  We are going to need them.  General: U.S. troops ‘getting tired’. Military services indicate they need 51,400 more people for homeland defense, Afghan war. [USA Today : Front Page]

Oh bull fucking shit.  The Andrea Yates verdict is insane. A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control. [Salon.com]

This is just a bit too much.  I’m a security professional, but this takes things to just a bit of an extreme…

New York Times – free registration required At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged.

Steve Mann, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports.

Last month that changed. Before boarding a Toronto-bound plane at St. John’s International Airport in Newfoundland, Dr. Mann says, he went through a three-day ordeal in which he was ultimately strip- searched and injured by security personnel. During the incident, he said, $56,800 worth of his $500,000 equipment was lost or damaged beyond repair, including the eyeglasses that serve as his display screen.

[Privacy Digest]

Wonderful.  Linux security pandemic – major zlib/libz vuln. It’s inside the walls, under the rug, in the ventilator shafts… [The Register]