Last month it was announced on the Disney Parks blog that they were releasing the MagicBand. Far from being a surprise, it had been a topic of discussion through a variety of news outlets, and Disney Park aficionados, months prior to the official FCC filing. In the weeks following the blog post a flurry of forum posts appeared, concerned over the many personal privacy issues, from tracking movement within the parks to identity theft. I
While not directly security related, I want to talk about how we relay information. Many times people will latch on to a position, and right or wrong they will defend that position. I don’t really have a problem with that. What I have a problem with is when people take a position, espouse that position as fact, and then when asked to cite supporting information they tell people to go find it themselves. This actually
So I know I’ve been slacking on the blog and I’ve been making excuses to myself. Last week it was, oh well I’m prepping for DEFCON. Then Sunday the excuse was that I was at DEFCON. Well now I’m on a plane, still on pacific time and being fed drinks by the wonderful folks who feel bad for the fact that our already late flight was delayed by maintenance issues. So why the title? My
Today’s I’m changing from a planned post on social engineering and OPSEC failures to talk about an epic failure in understanding security policy. So today the New York Times published a story about the FDA monitoring emails and I think that this is a rehash of old news since it was written about before in the Washington Times about the very same thing. Now I’m not here to talk about the politics of the situation or whether the actions of the
A few weeks ago I was at a symposium and they were talking about how networks kept falling victim to the same attacks and vulnerabilities; attacks and vulnerabilities that we were discussing three years ago. It makes me wonder what goes through peoples heads. Why are we still having the same problems that we were having three years ago. I fully understand, and support the argument that the operating systems that we use should not simply accept
While traveling I happened to notice that someone in the waiting room was carying a fire chest. For the un-initiated, a fire chest does a great job of protecting your items from being destroyed in a fire. That’s all. Any security offered by these boxes in an after thought. I know because I have one and it’s laughably simple to open up if you happen to loose the key. Now this caught my eye not