Random Articles

• “I am very concerned we have squandered the gift of time” “…The only reason these events did not result in a successful terror attack is because the bad guys were thieves and smugglers, not terrorists…” - David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance
• We Are All Silos Another day, another MacLeod (the word I’m using to describe my heavy-handed, Hugh MacLeod-inspired imagery). How many login/password combinations are you (or your browsers) remembering? Aside from the security issues inherent in having multiple keys around the web, each login/pass is another barrier to adoption, integration, usability, and usefulness. Customers are the silo, not publishers - application or
• Feeling Temporarily Secure I’ve been to handful of airports - the underlying architecture of them all is: open, flowing, permanent. The ironic exception is the airport checkpoints - like pop-up stores in malls. Foldable tables, movable queue markers, equipment on wheels - makes it feel so temporary. Like it just might packed up and gone tomorrow. “The tables aren’t quite
• A Cry for Help If a month-old baby going through an x-ray machine can’t bring a heavy dose of common sense to the TSA, what will? “Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, which manages LAX screeners, said the agency doesn’t have enough workers to constantly stand at tables in front of the screeners to coach passengers on
• PopSci Delivers Geek Triumverate PopSci Podcast #14: Jonathan Coulton asks Bruce Schneier about the risks of snakes on a plane.