Monday, September 3, 2007

taking the scope out a tad...

well, looks like sony produced another solid piece of security enhancing software. imo, (unless i'm not keeping up w/ current events properly) rootkits are ready for easy to deploy automated scanning tools... seems like they are mb taking up some of the slack of buffer overflow defense work... best quote:

When the original Sony rootkit scandal hit, a Sony executive originally dismissed it by saying that "most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"


does this seem like it might produce the type of negativism we've been trying to avoid here at home?

... [they] were consultants working with Marines at Camp Pendleton. They say they were humiliated ...


how do you turn allies into enemies? mb by making them feel like you don't see them as allies based on irational fears? might be a stretch, but one could argue that this real-world issue is analogous to projecting information security into an environment...

speaking of RW security, has anyone else noticed the number of stories talking about things that are normally supposed to be secret...? like details of strategic and tactical military action? for the sources on these stories, are we seeing a minor revolt by the intellegence corps? did anyone else catch the bit about the rove resignation relating to iran? i saw an interview snippit in which he says he's leaving because he was asked to leave....

does the current usa admin team wonder if the tail could be wagging the dog? it seems like there might be other elements in the world looking to manipulate large geographic areas...

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