I just finished the new book from 37Signals – “ReWork“, and it was a reasonably enjoyable read. (It was actually the first book i read through the iPhone Kindle App, which is incredibly cool)(Would love to see that discussion at Amazon, deciding if they should support the iPad to sell books, or try to starve the iPad to sell the Kindle?.. but i digress..) There are many, many 37Signal fanboys and signal vs noise has to be one of the …
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If you didnt figure that portswigger rocked for his elite “The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook“, or for managing to put out a tool ive never heard anything bad about (in an industry full of people who dont hesitate to say bad things..), you have to give him +1 for having the coolest ad that ever graced an infosec magazine.. BURP SUITE PRO v1.3 NOW* AVAILABLE New features Same logo More expensive http://portswigger.net *Product not available at time of …
Paul Maylam Rhodes University mourns the passing of its alumnus Dr. Fatima Meer on Friday, 12 March 2010, following a stroke she suffered two weeks ago. She was aged 82. In 2007 Rhodes awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature to Fatima Meer: a courageous, selfless, independent-minded scholar-activist, never afraid to speak out and always ready to act on her words. She has been described as “a redoubtable fighter and doughty champion of the underclass”; as “dynamite in a …
On Friday my great-aunt passed away. She was an amazingly wonderful, warm lady who’s work and efforts have touched the lives of many. When you remember her as the soft spoken, self effacing granny figure at family functions, you tend to forget just how remarkable a person she was. Rhodes University published the following tribute penned by Paul Maylam. It’s the sort of tribute that makes you recognize the difference between regular people (like us) and legends like her.. The …
Welcome to thinkst thoughts, my new blog home. There is a good chance you got here from the SensePost blog, where I’ve been pondering, posting & prognosticating for the past few years. Add us to your RSS reader.. (aka. the elevator pitch!) There is much broken in the info-sec industry, and there is much broken in general. There are answers waiting to be discovered, brand new questions waiting to be asked, and really important problems waiting to be worked on. …