Who of us haven't wistfully recalled the scenes in The Matrix trilogy where facts and skills were modularized into chunks of data that could be dropped into the human brain within a matter of seconds? Real life doesn't work that way. Taking an example...

Two seriously awesome blips across my infosec radar today:nmap 5.10BETA1 was released. New .NSE scripts, performance enhancements, OS fingerprints and minor fixes abound. Definitely worth checking out. Shodan Beta. This computer/port/network...

This is what it looks like when you finally get to nominate folks to join Google Wave: I've had Wave since October 8, and I am just now able to nominate folks. Update: All the Wave invites I had are now spoken for. Thanks for all who...

Do you remember in the 80s and 90s, when half of your stores' real-estate was dedicated to sliding pegboards of myriad components 3 layers deep, Engineer's (Mini) Notebooks by Forrest M. Mims III, genuinely good electronics experimenter kits,...

Today, I was having trouble with a web application. I don't often find myself on the other end of a helpdesk call, but lo and behold here I was. I submitted a screen shot of the error, and the response was akin to "I'm sorry, we don't support browsers...