A semi real-time dump of the interesting things I make, do, and come across on a daily basis, recorded with the help of my most trusted gadgetry.
Good Evening Everyone,
I am so far behind on e-mail that I am declaring bankruptcy. If you've sent me an e-mail prior to this afternoon, you might want to send it again, since all the emails I've received up until then have been deleted. I apologize if this causes any inconvenience for you, but for the sake of my sanity, I am starting over.
Take care,
Marie Kyle
The first time I tried sketch swap, I made this incredible masterpiece. I know what you're thinking, and the answer is no, I was not drunk when I did this.
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Taken during my transition to Rochester, always such a beautiful trip,
whenever I take it!
Hahahaha...
A - Approach the customer with a "warm welcome"
"Computer security the world over is currently predicated on a "castle and moat" model whereby great effort is expended on trying to keep intruders out. Problem is, this kind of approach works best when individual computers are relatively isolated from one another and their interactions are infrequent and trivial. Today, computers form a vast ecosystem and are increasingly interdependent.
Biological organisms had to solve this problem a long time ago. It's impractical to seal oneself off from the larger environment, yet that environment contains lots of things that can do us harm. The body, therefore, doesn't attempt a "keep them out" approach but rather has adapted to be able to continue functioning even when parasites and predators have penetrated the deepest recesses. Computer systems, therefore, will need to evolve to the point where they can function adequately and safely even when compromised. Graceful degradation rather than sudden catastrophic failure; critical data hidden "in plain sight" rather than maintained monolithically in one place so that, once penetrated, everything is vulnerable all at once.
These aren't simple computing problems to solve, but they are intrinsically solvable. The alternative is to pursue a strategy that is already quite futile. Defense in depth has been dead for some time but apparently most cyber security personnel haven't noticed.
Our present systems architectures were all developed under the constraints that processor, memory and storage resources were scarce and needed to be optimized. Those constraints no longer hold. We can, therefore, begin to redesign our systems so as to trade off a little performance to achieve vastly enhanced security. And, practically speaking, the performance loss won't even be noticed because most of the time our computers are relatively idle in terms of processor utilization and even the old bugbear, I/O.
So, let's stop fussing over firewalls and banning flash drives from government agencies and start re-thinking the problem in a more complete and coherent manner."
