In a span of 30 years, the average person in the United States has gone from explicitly asking the phone company to not publish their phone number in the phone book to sharing every intimate detail of their life on social media. It seems people have lost the understanding of the value of privacy. It is…
If you’ve ever had the task of requesting and installing a digital certificate on a web server or network device, you’ve probably found it tedious. And maybe you were surprised at the price public certificate authorities charge for their most basic certificates. While any self-signed certificate can provide an identity to set up a secure…
The recently publicized “Heartbleed” SSL/TLS bug has received a tremendous amount of media coverage and, deservedly, a significant amount of concern amongst the IT security community. Rather than rehash the same information that has been shared repeatedly, I would like to offer some philosophical commentary, concise guidance, and additional resources to the IT community as…
