Shostack + Friends Blog Archive

 

My BlackHat Plans

I’ll be speaking twice at BlackHat. First on the “Smashing the Future” panel with Bruce Schneier, Marcus Ranum, Jeff Moss and Jennifer Granick (10AM Wednesday, main hall). My second talk is also on Wednesday, on a new game, Control-Alt-Hack. I’ve been helping Tamara Denning and Yoshi Kohno create Control-Alt-Hack, and we’ll be speaking Wednesday at […]

 

Aitel on Social Engineering

Yesterday, Dave Aitel wrote a fascinating article “Why you shouldn’t train employees for security awareness,” arguing that money spent on training employees about awareness is wasted. While I don’t agree with everything he wrote, I submit that your opinion on this (and mine) are irrelevant. The key question is “Is money spent on security awareness […]

 

Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor

Around the 4th of July, some smart, public minded folks put forth a “Declaration of Internet Freedom“. And while it’s good in a motherhood and apple pie sense of good, wholesome fun for the whole family, it lacks the punch and panache of the Declaration of Independence to which men pledged their lives, fortunes and […]

 

"Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.."

So following up on our tradition of posting the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain on the 4th, I wanted to use one of those facts submitted to a candid world to comment on goings on in…Great Britain. There, the government has decided to place anti-aircraft missiles on the roof of a residential building near […]

 

The Evolution of Information Security

A little while back, a colleague at the NSA reached out to me for an article for their “Next Wave” journal, with a special topic of the science of information security. I’m pleased with the way the article and the entire issue came out, and so I’m glad that the NSA has decided to release […]

 

we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which […]