A Pragmatic Approach I am here to liberate you from PGP! Over the years Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) has remained constantly frustratingly difficult to use correctly, but remarkably effectively when done so. It is a Swiss army knife encryption tool with more options and contraptions than seems necessary (seriously, just see gpg-zip — encrypted archive handling.) To add […]
Archives for August 2017
Fascinating Glimpse Into Police Investigation
How an abused child was located and rescued using obscure clues A few years ago I wrote about the extreme security practices of the YardBird child abuse media trading group. The security rules they developed and, for the most part, followed enabled a significant portion of the group to evade capture even though they were thoroughly […]
Ransomware Changed the Rules
Why I think it’s driving security improvements at companies Recently I reposted this old tweet and said I still believe it to be true: There has been push back from a number of angles so I feel the need to clarify specifically what I mean. The threat of a ransomware attack, either targeted or random, […]