Day: December 1, 2008

Brilliant new download service does classical music right: you can buy by the track, major work, or album, and it’s available as MP3s or high fidelity recordings (the latter, unfortunately, only available for PCs). The real news is that they’ll be releasing new performances, including the performance of Daphnis et Chloe that I was in in 2007.

HRC is officially on board. I think the dichotomy in NYT’s analysis of Obama’s policy (more diplomats or more soldiers, how can he afford both?) is disingenous and forgets where a lot of the defense budget is spent: on weapons system contracts that the Pentagon didn’t really want.

The guest poster, Shyama Rose, is right on that tools aren’t as capable as security professionals in finding flaws. But her argument misses a critical point: the guild of security professionals isn’t large enough to find and identify one tenth of one percent of the critical security flaws that exist out there. We’re past the time when only manual analysis can keep us safe. That’s one of the reasons why the SAAS model at Veracode is an interesting solution–keep the security expertise on demand rather than trying to teach a developer how to use a tool to find security flaws.

Computer security issues have real world, national security, life and limb implications.

Annoyed by all the crud in your Google search results? A few tips on turning the SearchWiki features off.

Master’s thesis looking at the performance of user generated tags in the context of LibraryThing.

Amazing piece of WWII history surfaces, for sale by BT.

Why a bias to action might not be the best thing.

Dramatic retelling of the Kaminsky flaw discovery.