Grab bag: security drumbeat

Technology Review: Stealthier Mac Attacks
Stealth attack kit for Mac targets the application memory space and leaves no traces. Exploits the weaknesses in Mac OS X’s address space randomization.
(tags: security macosx)

Web Applications: Achilles’ Heel Of Corporate Security (InformationWeek)
Again–secure the apps. They are currently the weakest point in anyone’s infrastructure.
(tags: security)

Scanning the sepia

I’ve started digitizing some old photo albums. Nothing earth-shattering: these were photos I took as a kid with my first camera, starting in 1981 or 1982 through about high school. But some of the photos are interesting to me because they frame the way I think about some physical realities now–like my uncle’s house in [...]

Ramagon 2: the toy in action

There are about 150 people who have stumbled across the Ramagon tribute I wrote last year, one or two at a time. I finally stumbled across some photographic evidence of the toys when I was scanning an old photo album last night. Here are some out of focus close-ups of three things I made with [...]