Updated Google Docs Drawing

The new Google Docs Drawing type is pretty sweet! Looks like I won't be needing to haul around Portable Dia on my flash drive anymore...



It's also got real-time collaboration! Check out the official introduction video on youtube:

If Email Signatures Were Honest

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A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?

Awesome. But am I allowed to bust out this chart to justify phone usage?


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Based in New York City, Shane Snow is a graduate student in Digital Media at Columbia University and founder of Scordit.com. He's fascinated with all things geeky, particularly social media and shiny gadgets he'll never afford.

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99 Problems

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Lady Gaga at the 2009 VMA's looks awfully familiar

xkcd true-ism's

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Thousands of Sacrificial Lambs

Problem:

• So you say 'hackers' are constantly knocking on the perimeter door to your network.

• You claim that they are trying to 'map' your network.

• You insist that they will cherry pick targets based on fingerprint data, wins/dns name, or other factors.

Proposition:

• Fill up a virtual machine host with hundreds to thousands of fake hosts that each have random fingerprint appearance and different name. They don't need to do anything except listen on a few ports (on a set of believable ports, to mimic a real OS), and maybe send a fake packet or two around (you know, like M$ boxes like to do because they get lonely.) A full blown app like vmware is overkill for this purpose. A perl script on five tiny embedded systems would suffice.

Just think of the possibilities.

1. Each would dilute any reconnaissance tool with bogus hosts


2. Each is indistinguishable from real hosts without attempting to check the function of each service for each address.


3. Each could also be setup to send alerts to your InfoSec dept when anyone attempts to connect to them; (only two categories of connectors: 1) misconfigured friendlies, and 2) bad guys.)


4. Every second the scanner spends poking around in these fake hosts, your real ones aren't touched.


5. You can brag about how many 'hosts' are on the network you manage.


6. If 'fancy' is your middle name, you could write a script that would forward connection attempts to a honeypot and attempt to grab a fresh piece of badware.

Thoughts?

P.S. I admit I partly stole this idea from Tom Liston's LaBrea tarpit.

Why freeways should be conveyor belts

I drive a pretty sizable distance every day to commute to work. I drive on a freeway most of the distance.

Freeways were poorly named. Congested freeways are anything but free of cars. They house traffic 'trends' such as 'packs' or 'squadrons' as well as 'stop and go' sections or often just convenient 'parking lot' areas while you attempt to get home before dark.
In an attempt to optimize this sad state of affairs affecting those of us in urban life, I have come up with the solution (which as I'm sure you've guessed by now since you read the title) is that all freeways should be replaced with conveyor belts.

Now, I don't mean the rubber & pulley wheel variety, I have in mind something more like the catapult system found on the flight decks of American super carriers. It seems so simple it just may work!

Each car would hook up to one of these at speed and "lock in" to a spot on the freeway 'belt.' That way, the belt is always moving at a constant speed, no one is able to weave in and out of lanes, it's impossible to have a fender bender, people can't use the margins on the side of the road as 'temp passing lanes,' maximum fuel efficiency for all cars is enforced and no one can speed!

It's a perfect solution! I just solved the top 5 highway issues with one ginormously expensive and implausible invention that everyone would hate.

I dare you to poke holes in my logic...