Internet Security Public Announcement:

Eric Rescorla has made his slides available from his excellent talk from USENIX Security last year titled "The Internet is Too Secure Already". The slides are here: http://www.rtfm.com/TooSecure-usenix.pdf.

Your homework, is to tattoo this presentation on the inside eyelids of every security researcher in the planet so they are forced to read it, and keep re-reading it.

But before that, take the time to register for some of the fine Usenix conferences: their Annual Technical Conference (mostly operating system and "advanced computing" topics), security (real security research, not "how to install a firewall"), and System Administration (mostly Unix and internet technologies). These are some of the best conferences around. (If registration isn't open yet, at least mark your calendar.)

Modern Maturity

Last week I posted a link on my livejournal to http://www.claimvfact.org, which is a site that has a big database of the lies of the Bush administration. A few days later golfmasterken, who doesn't list me as a "friend" (nor do I) posts:

> ur gay .. fuck all yall .. NJ FOR LIFE... scotty goldfarb is gonna die.. water

I don't know how Scotty Goldfarb is (and Google doesn't turn up anything interesting), and I assume "water" is a typo of "later". However, I think everyone will agree that obviously this person is reading the wrong LJ if they are a homophobic pro-lifer. I have to assume he was flipping through random LJ's and happened upon mine.

I thought long and hard about what an appropriate reply would be. I could ban him from my LJ, I could delete the post. I could write a well-reasoned response, I could try to track him down, etc. I looked at his LJ profile for inspiration. I decided to do the mature thing and replied:

> I might be gay, but you go to Hartford. Talk about "loser"!

Now, I hope you all got a chuckle out of that. But the real funny part is his reply.

I hope you laughed as hard as I did. I love when I'm right!