February 2007 - Posts

How to get a US Passport in 1.5h Hours
20 February 07 11:45 PM

This is a true story. Last Thursday I flew from RSA in San Francisco back to Seattle. When I got back I helped my wife pack the bags for our trip to New Zealand. At about midnight, after we'd done all the packing, I got the passports out of the safe and Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 12 Comments    

UAC BS
08 February 07 01:30 PM

Howdy once again from RSA. It's raining. So much for sunny California! Jeff and I just gave our talk about Windows Vista Security Engineering. It was a packed room. In fact, when we got to the room we saw a bunch of people milling around outside. We went Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 20 Comments    

Filed under: Security, Rant, Vista

Something Windows Vista Parental Controls cannot protect against
07 February 07 06:17 PM

Howdy from RSA in San Francisco - I just got here, and I have a talk tomorrow morning @ 9AM about Windows Vista Security Engineering. Now to the topic of this post. One of my favorite features in Windows Vista is Parental Controls. I like the feature Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 16 Comments    

Filed under: Security, Vista

What is it that makes security hard?
02 February 07 04:20 PM

I’ve been asked this question numerous times, often in the guise of a question like, “why can’t you guys simply fix the security problem?” or “reliability and scalability problems are understood and solvable, why can’t you do the same with security?” Read More...

Postedby michael_HOWARD | 8 Comments    

Filed under: Security, Rant