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School Surveillance of Students Through Laptops May Be Doing More Harm Than Good

~ 0hbrian

My hometown news website recently published an article with the above title authored by University of North Carolina Professor Nir Kshetri. I've never met Professor Kshetri but after reading his essay I posted the following comment. Professor Kshetri is all wrong in his analysis and conclusions regarding monitoring minor students use of district supplied computing … Continue reading School Surveillance of Students Through Laptops May Be Doing More Harm Than Good

Secure Networks Vidcast with Mike Morris from Endace

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I had the fantastic opportunity to have a recorded video chat (a vidcast) with Mike Morris the Global Director of Business Development at Endace recently. Endace is in my mind the market leader when it comes to network packet capture solutions. They have really evolved network packet technology from its roots in open source TCPdump … Continue reading Secure Networks Vidcast with Mike Morris from Endace

Inference, Aggregation, and Safe Cracking

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I'm studying for the CISSP exam. Inference and aggregation are means used to take low level or partial information and use that to derive higher level information. Inference requires deduction. The lower level information provides clues. Aggregation is a mathematical or mechanical process. Apply inference and aggregation to safe cracking (or lock picking). Using inference … Continue reading Inference, Aggregation, and Safe Cracking

What’s Next?

~ 0hbrian

Hired Cisco 1997. Fired Cisco 2014. Acquired by Cisco 2016. Retired from Cisco 2020. I've learned a lot in these past 23 years. I hope that I can share what I've learned with others and in some small part help to close the digital divide.