Black Hat and Defcon Talks
Hello, gentle reader. It has been quite a week for the team at iSEC Partners, NCC Group and Artemis. We have had a total of ten talks at Black Hat and Defcon. While the opportunity to interact with our...
View ArticleA Taxonomy of PRISM Possibilities
I have been fielding a decent number of calls and emails from reporters on the NSA PRISM scandal. A lot of people are trying to synthesize reasonable technical explanations for how the NSA could...
View ArticleThe Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime”
I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person’s entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who...
View ArticleAnswering Questions about .Secure
The initial tech press coverage of Artemis and .Secure has been very gratifying, although it creates a situation where many people are raising the same questions or concerns. Instead of trying to...
View ArticleIntroducing something that might become the Domain Policy Framework
I have already started to lay out why we are going after the .secure TLD, let’s start the discussion of how it would be different. As I have repeated to a dozen reporters in the last 36 hours, there...
View ArticleWhy .Secure? Part I: Listening to the User
“Security and usability must not be in conflict. If it’s not safe, it’s not usable; if it’s not usable, it can’t be used safely.” – Chris Palmer, circa 2008 If you are one of the dozens of...
View ArticleJoining the late 20th century
What did it feel like to be the last buggy whip driver on a road crammed with exhaust spewing Fords? A sailmaster staring at the stern of an ironsided steamship? A telegraph operator making his first...
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