Security: information, MBTA, geopolitical

Robert Kagan – Putin Makes His Move (washingtonpost.com) Russia vs. Georgia = The return of military geopoliticism. (tags: foreignpolicy war russia) Surf Jacking More Black Hat/Defcon fruit–spoofing HTTP 301/302 to force a customer to downgrade an HTTPS session for the purpose of stealing cookies. (tags: security) Chandler Project – Welcome Chandler makes it to 1.0. [...]

Isaac Hayes, RIP

I was two or three years out of college when I first listened to Isaac Hayes seriously. I had picked up Shaft in college but, aside from the title track, it didn’t speak to me. I mean, flutes? Really? I just couldn’t get past the instrumentation. I knew there was something funky there but it [...]