Vulnerabilities have a market value

Posted by robert.reddick in March 21st, 2009 | no comment

Charlie Miller hacks browsers, and I suppose other web techs, but this little tidbit from our title shows a bit of the future. He works for Independent Security Evaluators, and in this ZDNet articles points the way forward for exploitists.
I have a new campaign. It’s called NO MORE FREE BUGS. Vulnerabilities have a market value [...]

Turning the past into a pile of ash

Posted by robert in March 18th, 2009 | no comment

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I first saw The Avett Brothers with my brother Kevin in Winston-Salem at an outdoor concert back in 2006. Tonight at 11:59 EDT they hit the stage at SXSW (listen live / archive). For those web and music jocks not yet exposed to The Avett’s I can think of no better statement for what [...]

Newspapers demand to be lied to – YouTube at 11:00.

Posted by robert in March 16th, 2009 | no comment

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Clay Shirky has a words for the newspaper industry, article.
Some select quotes:
When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.
When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really [...]

Please Ask a different question

Posted by robert in March 4th, 2009 | no comment

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In January at the Citi media conference Barry Diller announced (registration required) that footrolls were not the way forward for (Internet) video advertising. Maybe John Moore with Interpublic Group’s Mullen was able to talk some sense into the Interactive Wizard. Is it just me, or isn’t that a footroll ad for Dillers Ask.com?