Hangout for experimental confirmation and demonstration of software, computing, and networking. The exercises don't always work out. The professor is a bumbler and the laboratory assistant is a skanky dufus.
ACM News Service: Our Frankenputer. This blurb looks at a variety of hardware fixes and software solutions for improving security of the PC. The idea is to have PCs designed with security in mind. While I think that is a good idea, I would like to look more at where Peter Neumann points concerning the user culture and our part in the insecurity of our systems, at least among developers-as-users and power users who do not take appropriate and already-available precautions.
The Philip E. Ross, 2005-03-14 Forbes.com article has the following provocative lead: "Hostile programs bend our computers to their own purposes because we designed them that way. Time for some new ideas." Now just exactly who is this we they're talking about?
