rc3.org

Security researcher Matt Blaze infuriated the locksmithing community when he published a paper on safecracking for public consumption. Interestingly, a friend of mine wrote an article on picking locks back in our g-file BBS days that I’m sure would have annoyed the hell out of lockpicks had more people been online back then. The Informatik [...]

[Read more →]

Dave Johnson has a funny item about a “snowstorm” that paralyzed the Raleigh area yesterday. I returned from a trip to Miami at about 6:30 PM, having flown out that morning at 6:30 AM, and so I got to experience the worst of the traffic. It normally takes me about 20 minutes to get from [...]

[Read more →]

Scott Rosenberg on the Bush adminsitration’s approach to Social Security:

Here, once again, as with the runup to Iraq, we have a major battle in which the Bush team is systematically bulldozing a set of facts in order to throw up a new Potemkin-village reality in which their ideological preferences make sense.

Not just true, but also [...]

[Read more →]

As it turns out, British soldiers who tortured their captives in Iraq used the same techniques as Americans did. Somehow I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[Read more →]

Boy do I regret even mentioning the stupid blogging for dollars scandal the other day, because now I feel like in order to give the people involved a fair shake, I have to pay an inordinate amount of attention to it, long past the point where my interest has faded to nothing. Anyway, Rogers Cadenhead [...]

[Read more →]

The papers have a story today on a UN report which says that if rich countries upped their foreign aid contributions from 0.25% of GDP to 0.5% of GDP, global poverty could be halved within the next 10 years. The report also says that only 30 cents out of each aid dollar actually go to [...]

[Read more →]

Ed Cone has been all over this tempest in a teacup surrounding the Dean campaign’s hiring of Jerome Armstrong and Markos Mulitsas Zuniga. Read what he says. I find it disappointing that the perception is that people can toss some money at webloggers and buy their support, but that’s all that’s going on here. The [...]

[Read more →]

The Trademark Blog urges you to subscribed to its RSS feed unless your RSS reader happens to run on somebody else’s Web server. The difference between reading the site through Bloglines (currently prohibited) and reading it through NetNewsWire or FeedDemon or any other RSS reader? You tell me.

[Read more →]

Chris Suellentrop has a Slate piece on how political campaigns are using bloggers to advance their agenda. He wonders whether some of the campaigns that had Markos Moulitsas on the payroll were the same ones that Kos was shilling for on his site, and mentions that John Thune in South Dakota had a couple of [...]

[Read more →]

Our President is a disgrace to the human race. There’s really no other way to put it. If you saw the snippet of his interview with Barbara Walters where he was asked if going into Iraq was worth it given that no weapons of mass destruction were found, you know what I mean. His response, [...]

[Read more →]