Archive for the 'General' Category

The DRM Endlösung

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Let me present a solution for the Digital Rights Management problem that both the music and movie industries could support and that gives consumers great advantages at the same time. All it needs is the implantation of a crypto chip on the auditory nerve very soon after birth; a minor inconvenience compared to the advantages [...]

Human Interrupt Handling

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Joel (On Software) got me into this thread of thinking. He interrupted me, while I was doing something else (I forgot) and instead of picking up what I was doing, I started writing today’s blog. And it may even get finished unless something else distracts me and I don’t return to this one. Or get [...]

Brunettes, DNS, and Choice Poisoning Attacks

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Listening to a science program on the radio about a psychology experiment, shortly to be published in Science, I was struck by the similarity between the result of that experiment and DNS poisoning. It seems humans work in detached asynchrononous fashion, just as the DNS protocol, which certainly would help in the scalability department. Not [...]

Cool Plague, this

Friday, September 30th, 2005

The following extracts gives me goose-bumps. They mingle concepts so beautifully. If you didn’t know what Warcraft was, it reads like far-out Sci-Fi. See SecurityFocus for the original story.

As if the world needs yet one more blog…

Monday, June 27th, 2005

So, here I am, enriching the world with another blog you can’t live without. I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breaths on my words of wisdom, that the internet has been standing still, hushed and quiet, to see what I have to say.