Monthly Archives: May 2013

The Basics …. or …. Be a Professional, Not a Hobbyist

Have you ever noticed that the average Infosec practitioner only really gets excited, interested and focused on advanced security activities? If you start talking about how to do real time forensic packet inspection across your network, a half dozen security … Continue reading

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Stunning Pics By Seattle Daredevil

This guy, ShutterSubversive, is putting some awesome pictures out from the top of iconic Seattle landmarks. Great stuff! Probably not legal, but he understands his risk, I’m sure. ShutterSubversive’s pics of Seattle landmarks.

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I Wish

That all security professionals spent time having to explain what they want to do to lay people. And that doesn’t mean Information Technology professionals, who will understand many of the things you are describing. No, you really need to learn … Continue reading

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The View

This is what it is like in my backyard most of the time. The kids aren’t visible, but they’re running around too.

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A Thought on FUD

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt Why, when there are so many fundamentally sound reasons for a company to do good security, do the security professionals seem to always fall back to trying to motivate through FUD? Why aren’t you guys out … Continue reading

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Insanity

Okay, I mentioned getting fit again after having gotten badly out of shape. I will go into more details in the future, and really talk about it. But I figured that for now I would just mention one thing.

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A Place for Me to Talk to the World

Welcome to Security, Cigars and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). The title of this blog comes from my profession and my love of good cigars. Anyway, here’s some stuff about me. I’ve been in the world of security, both physical … Continue reading

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