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June 2007 - Posts

Why don't I agree with Bruce Schneier all the time :)

Friday's post about security blogs apparently contained a bit of unintended controversy. When describing Bruce Schneier's blog, I said "I don't agree with a lot of what he says". Apparently this is heresy in some parts, although I don't understand why. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 11:10 AM by LarryOsterman | 44 Comments
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Where do you go to get your security news?

Anyone who's hung around me for a while knows that I'm a bit of a security geek. As such,I try to keep up on what's going on in the industry and try to keep current on what's going on in the vulnerability research community. Yesterday, someone in my division Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 3:06 PM by LarryOsterman | 15 Comments
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Last Wednesday wasn't a really good day for the home team...

Another personal post, I'm sorry about that, but life's been a smidge crazy. So this is Valorie's car as of last week Wednesday afternoon. The good news is that (as you can see) Daniel and Valorie are both fine (as far as we know, just aches and pains), Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:24 AM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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My wife and I are SUCH geeks.

Once again, nothing technical, but massively geeky (and maybe a bit TMI, but I figure most of the people reading this are grownups). Last night, I was reading my email on my computer (which lives in our bedroom) when my daughter came in and asked "Where's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:02 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments

Wow.

Yesterday I mentioned that I was going to the 5th Avenue High School Musical Theater awards show. I'm still speechless. And anyone who knows me knows how unlikely that is. First off, I want to offer my congratulations to Bellarmine Preparatory School Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:12 AM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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Tonight's the Night...

Nothing technical, just proud parent stuff. Tonight we're going to see the 5th Avenue High School Musical Awards for the first time. The 5th Avenue Awards are essentially the Tony Awards for high school musicals in the Seattle area, and the competition Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 1:43 PM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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Missed metaphors

Not surprisingly, the various teams that contribute to the Windows product have been hard at work planning what goes into potential future versions of Windows. As a part of that planning process, we've been collecting all sorts of data, and sifting through Read More...
Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 9:03 AM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
 
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