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As I’ve mentioned here once or twice, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project put on its first conference on Tuesday. By most accounts, it was a success and we’re likely to have another. I believe there were 150 attendees or thereabouts, which I think is pretty dang good for a [...]
Registration is open for the one-day OWASP conference we’re holding on the Saint Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. It’s not free as we’d hoped it would be, but it’s still only $25. Not bad for a day of web application security. Here’s the speaker list:
Jeff Williams, OWASP founder and CEO of Aspect Security.
Arshan [...]
I was about to write up my notes from Wednesday’s OWASP meeting, but Tim did a pretty good job. He starts by pointing out something I hadn’t really thought about:
The speaker, Andrew van der Stock, threw out many terms and ideas that he expected the audience to be familiar with. I wrote down many of [...]
I’ve never bought the argument that if you don’t vote, you can’t complain. It goes back to my anarchist days, when I would argue that it made as much sense as saying that by participating in an unjust system, you’ve chosen to give up your right to complain when that system fucks you over. I’m [...]
NASA has this stunning video of the moon orbiting the earth from the point of view of the Deep Impact spacecraft, 31 million miles away. Just watching the earth rotate is impressive enough, even for someone raised on science fiction movies. But then: whoa! What’s that?! The moon passes through the scene. Wow.
It seems so [...]
At the risk of making this an “all OWASP, all the time” blog, I do want to say that Andrew van der Stock will be speaking in Minneapolis tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6:00 p.m. Actually a little after 6, since we usually let folks trickle in for ten minutes or so.
Andrew is the project lead for [...]
Through two completely different paths, within an hour I discovered two different and very cool sites about the Periodic Table of the Elements. First, the source for the coolest periodic table poster I have ever seen, periodictable.com:
Next, a project from the University of Nottingham, the Periodic Table of Videos. They’ve done a short video for [...]
A coworker stopped me the other day: “You have been busy,” he said, “you haven’t been blogging.”
A quick look through the history of my blogging will show a lot of varation in frequency of posts and a general slow-down in recent years (only some of which I can attribute to Twitter), but it’s still true: [...]
I hesitated to write this, but the question has come up several times recently, so here you go anyway.
I don’t like secret questions for password retrieval. You’ve seen these, I’m sure: when you create an account somewhere, you’re presented with a list of questions to choose from and answer. The idea is that if you [...]
I was hanging up laundry to dry when I spotted this praying mantis on the table next to me:
I’m not sure where in the world it came from. These critters are not native to Minnesota and won’t survive the winter, but after taking a lot of pictures of it with my son and checking [...]
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