Despite being a blogger and being active on social media I still consider myself to be a private person. A common definition of privacy is "the right to be left alone" as written in an article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in the Harvard Law Review. That's still a pretty vague definition, which is … Continue reading Even on the Internet some people prefer privacy
Listing Beyond Forty
This is part of my Fiction Friday series of very short stories. After weeks of being held hostage by heavy snow then brutal cold then heavy snow again then brutal cold again she had been thankful for the excuse to go out. She'd done enough time in solitary confinement for which she had been equally thankful for … Continue reading Buyer’s remorse
This is part of my Fiction Friday series of very short stories. I'm not good at remembering dates. I'm also not good at frequently checking the calendar like my wife would like for me to do. Luckily, I'm observant enough to figure out when something is coming up, then I check the calendar for the details. Like … Continue reading The smelly stuff
SplashData has released their annual list of the "worst passwords" based on which passwords appeared most frequently in password files obtained by hackers. As an information security specialists these lists always make me feel happy about my job security but also despondent about how security awareness efforts still aren't changing the behaviors of many computer … Continue reading 25 most used passwords of 2013: Have people lost faith in Jesus?
This has bothered me for a long time (decades), so it's about time I blogged it out. First, SPOILER ALERT! This has to do with a detail near the end of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. If you don't know how that movie ends and don't want to know … Continue reading Dirty Dancing: 3 reasons everybody should put Baby in the corner
Kim Z. Dale 