I think I am going to rename this blog “Stuff that doesn’t fit into 140 chars” (stolen from Chris Anderson). I am mainly posting on Twitter these days, you can follow me here www.twitter.com/curphey .
I am not sure how I missed this absolute gem of a blog post but I did. It’s a great read [...]
Archive for the 'Long Tail Security' Category
Gem of a Security Post
June 15, 2009Security Technology UX
October 19, 2008I just can’t wait until security technology has UX as good as this
It maybe Hollywood fantasy today but with Silverlight and other technologies it’s not a million miles away these days.
SecurityNow
October 17, 2008We have just posted the first of a series of articles about a proof of concept called SecurityNow that we built at work.
http://blogs.msdn.com/cisg/
Are Business Risk and Technical Security Part of a Natural Fourier Series?
October 8, 2008Decade after decade politics moves from regulated economies to de-regulated economies. Changes are usually are triggered by “unpredictable events” (in political speak). We are almost certainly about to go onto a period of heavy government regulation of the financial services industry where “unpredictable events” or “failure” in plain English is blamed on inadequate of regulation. [...]
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
April 19, 2008Really good read by Marcus Ranum
Welcome to Microsoft Dennis Groves
April 16, 2008I have been waiting to send this email since January; welcome to Microsoft Dennis Groves. Dennis will be a Technical Product Manager for the Connected Information Security Framework (more on that as promised next week). Dennis started OWASP with me back in the day and we have been trying to find a way to work [...]
The Medici Effect
February 27, 2008I rarely recommend a book before I have finished it but rarely does one come along that captivates me like the Medici Effect. The last was probably Crossing the Chasm.
The Medici Effect is a book after my own heart. It’s all about innovation and how we can develop and advance various disciplines by learning [...]

The Future : Regulation is Futile – Market Forces Will Prevail
April 28, 200939,000 ft over yet another ocean ……
I just watched an old Bill Joy talk from Ted 2006 via iTunes. Two key paraphrases struck me as prophetic.
“You can’t regulate the problem away”
“What we need is better networks”
In 2005 I did a series of public speaking events using a theme Naked security in which I stripped [...]
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