About this time last year I discussed my thoughts on Counterintelligence (CI) and Computer Network Defense (CND). My basic proposition then was that CND is materially identical (or – more precisely – a monomorphism) to a restriction of CI to…
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Here is some progress we made recently as part of the OMG threat modeling working group: in order to guide the development of the threat meta mode, we have agreed to scope the work by looking into defining specific use…
We are truly living in interesting times, and while I sometimes prefer to be boring, I think that the increasing interest in authorization is definitively a good sign. Recent discussions on the OAuth Charter for the IETF WG, and Martin…
Germans usually do not tire to remind the rest of the world that data privacy is most important to them, and the German supreme court recently confirmed a human right to “informational self-determination“, which limits the means and circumstances…
Here is an interesting article from SPIEGEL ONLINE (unfortunately in German only). It describes how one of their journalists – Franz Walter – ended up in Spock.com as being related to the National Socialist Walter Gross. This caused another newspaper…
Dare Obasanjo points out a couple of reasons why globally federated identity system have – at least today – a very hard time breaking into the the walled silos of service providers: Facebook immediately comes to mind, but so do…
Today I got the confirmation that I am now enrolled in the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) as a NDO student for Management Science and Engineering. This is quite exciting for me – it is the first time since…