Unwiped devices and drives

Always wipe your devices/drives before selling them. The McCain campaign found this out the hardway.

Some people may never find out what they've released.

Implications of the Myspace Suicide case

Robert Graham raises some interesting points about the Myspace bullying/suicide case. He suggests that sometimes our personal views can cloud our judgment, leading to a bending of the law. Consider if he might be right. Accounts of jury reactions are noted elsewhere.

When reading about this case, try to think if the punishment achieves one of the four goals and consider the aftermath and what it might mean for you in the future.

Doppleganger (again)

Related to a previous post on this subject, some might suggest that you're nobody unless someone is faking you

Young people as a security threat?

Apparently the younger generation is seen as a threat:

Generation Y user behavior could endanger security of enteprise systems, studies say

Agent.btz visits the Pentagon

The Pentagon banned USB devices due to Agent.btz. While speculations run high, I particularly enjoyed this idea about how Agent.btz got on the network.

Your face is easy to fake

A Vietnamese security firm has demonstrated that facial recognition software can be spoofed. Enhanced pictures are used to bypass the software. Perhaps you should remove that Facebook photo now?

Perhaps we should move on to a more robust biometric system.

Linux vs Windows DOS commands

Here is a comparison between Windows DOS and Linux commands:

Windows DOS	Linux/Cygwin
dir	ls
cd	pwd
cd [path]	(same)
cls	clear
copy [old] [new]	cp [new] [old]
del [file]	rm [file]
move [old] [new]	mv [old] [new]
tree	tree (Linux only) ls -R
mkdir [dir]	(same)
rmdir [dir]	(same)
help [cmd]	man [cmd]
type [file]	cat [file]
date /t	(same without /t)
time /t	date
netstat -an	(same Linux only)
netstat -rn	(same Linux only)
ipconfig /all	ifconfig -a (Linux only)

For more information on Linux commands check out this tutorial or this tutorial (scroll past the ssh stuff).