The creator of Ruby on Rails tweeted angrily at Apple November 7th that they were discriminating unfairly against his wife, and he wasn’t able to get a response: By the next day, he had a response and he was even more unhappy. “THE ALGORITHM”, described similarly to Kafka’s 1915 novel “The Trial“, became the focus … Continue reading Don’t Be an AppleCard: Exposed for Using Sexist Algorithm
During several presentations and many meetings this past week I’ve had to discuss an accumulation of insider threat stories related to cloud service providers. It has gotten so bad that our industry should stop saying “evil maid” and say “evil SRE” instead. Anyway, has anyone made a list? I haven’t seen a good one yet … Continue reading Insider-threat as a Service (IaaS)
Two security professionals recently were on their way to jail, sent by a Dallas County Sheriff in Iowa, despite the pair having an authorization letter for their $75,000 contract to do some basic penetration tests. Why were they arrested? The Sheriff’s Posse Comitatus doctrine is an old political struggle in Iowa and real threat to … Continue reading Sheriff Arrested Coalfire’s Pentest Team. Was it a Case of Posse Comitatus?
Today is the day, that new Civil War movie I recently wrote about is released in theaters, documenting the life of American hero and abolitionist General “Harriet” Tubman. It’s long overdue, considering how important and well known her story should be for every American. This “be free or die” movie is a hugely historic event … Continue reading Encoded Songs of General “Harriet” Tubman