Blog posts

1. How I Decoded the Verizon 2009 DBIR Cover

   I was the first to solve the Verizon 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report cover. Chris Eng’s similar write-up is excellent and perhaps more in the spirit of defeating a challenge of the sort. That…

2. Wikipedia

   Simplepedia is a greasemonkey userscript that gives mediawiki sites a modern and clean design. Wikipedia’s design and style is tiring and cluttered. There’s just too much going on! Without the entire…

3. The Mad Tea Party

   There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and a Democrat and a Republican were having tea at it: the Economy was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it…

4. capture - a script for analysts and incident handlers

   Frequently, security analysts kick off tcpdump full packet captures on unix servers with tapped interfaces at trust zone perimeters which they leave running in the background. Often this is done in a…

5. Corporate Brand Mash-up DIY Rebellion

   From the Wall Street Journal via Dark Visitor : A property developer in Nanjing, hoping to lure business and buzz, set up storefront facades with logos such as “Haagon-Bozs,” “Pizza Huh,” “Bucksstar…