It’s way past the election, most of the races are now over, but in MN and GA, it’s still going strong. 
There’s a really good article up on some of the ballots that are being “questioned” by both Franken and Coleman’s campaign lawyers – A good number of the ones that are being “disputed” frankly [...]

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I desperately try to keep both politics and religion off this blog – it’s a personal thing that I don’t mind chatting about with people that ask, but as this is public, no-one really coming here really wants to read about my personal views on these subjects.  However, the following email landed in my non-spam [...]

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Ok, now I’ve got past that sweeping generalization, I can’t wait to see what happens on the 1st with the new cell-phone law coming into effect.
It seems to me that some people here have trouble enough driving, but pretty much insist on having a phone clamped to their ear 24/7 – I even saw [...]

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[Via Digg and Mark Curphey]
This is a really old article, written by a very well respected security professional back in 2005.  Although certainly some points are bang on the button, there’s good chunks of this that simply don’t stand up today.
#1 – Default Permit.  Yes, is certainly correct, although how many times have you actually [...]

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There’s been a few of the “click a link, go to jail” posts recently, but this SQL injection vulnerability in Oklahoma’s sex offenders roster (which I found on several blogs this morning) really takes the cake.  Basically, through a link on a page (a GET request no doubt, which makes CSRF so much easier), an [...]

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Last week I was working for a client in Phoenix.  Not much to report there – I’ve been to Phoenix a few times, and enjoy the city, so no real trip report write up.  The only reason that I’m doing a post for this trip is to write about another stupid TSA security incident I [...]

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There’s probably going to be a lot of traffic on this, and although I don’t want to add to the noise, I have to rant for a second.  EWeek has just put up an article on "The 15 Most Influential People in Security Today".  My immediate thoughts?  W…T…F.
Ok, the term "Influential" could be slightly loaded [...]

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