Toronto, October 2010
This post was originally entitled “SecTor 2010”, however I never actually attended the conference, so it’s not really about the conference but rather my short stay in Toronto during the SecTor 2010 conference.
Category: technology
ToorCon 12
After a two year absence due to unavoidable other obligations like good friends’ weddings, I finally made it back to one of my favorite hacker conferences, Toorcon. San Diego is always beautiful when I happen to be there with nice weather and a cool mix of people, both locals and visitors who are there for […]
Cleverbot Not So Clever
Yesterday I came across Cleverbot, an “AI” from icogno. As far as I can tell, it’s an incarnation of their jabberwacky AI which supposedly learns from it’s past interactions. I’m always skeptical of anything that is claimed to be AI, because actually creating a convincing fake AI, much less a real one, is an extremely […]
SmartPhone Unlock Screens: Moving in the Wrong Direction
I recently purchased the Motorola Droid from Verizon, and am so far very happy with it. Other than finding the physical keyboard a bit lacking from being extremely spoiled by the Sidekick’s physical keyboard to which no other physical keyboard could ever hope to live up to, I’ve really had no complaints with the device […]
Four-factor Authentication
It’s common understanding these days that the more factors of identification that a user has to provide to an authentication system, the more trustworthy and secure it likely is. Single-factor authentication is usually accomplished by providing something you know, like a password or PIN number. As two-factor authentication became more and more mainstream, the two […]
Formal Degrees vs. Certification
I’ve never been a fan of most certifications. I’ve always been even less a fan of formal degrees in education, at least for technology-centric industries. I’ve always argued that my body of work is my credential, and if a potential employer were to reject my application on the basis that I didn’t have a certain […]
Does backwards compatibility stifle innovation and progress?
Upon beginning my new job, I’ve been thrown head-first into the world of Internet Telephony security, a sector that I’ve not really paid much attention to, much less followed. I’m currently in the process of getting acquainted with all of the various protocols and technologies involved, and in doing so I’ve signed up to the […]