Month: August 2015
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Smile! And your favorite charity benefits.
[Update: In 2023, Amazon discontinued the Smile program unfortunately. Many of us feel it was the wrong decision.] Recently, Amazon implemented a program called ‘Smile’ that allows you to select a charity who will get a small portion (0.5%) of your purchases. The beauty of this program is that you select your charity one time.…
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A quick, factual reminder on the value and reality of a “EULA”… (aka MADness)
[This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] This post is in response to the drama the last few days, where Mary Ann Davidson posted an inflammatory blog about security researchers that send Oracle vulnerabilities while violating their End-user License Agreement (EULA… that thing you click without reading for every piece of software you install).…
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Exotic Liability Podcast #82 – Holidays are Errata funz
On August 6, 2015, I joined Chris Nickerson and Lizzy Borden to talk about Attrition.org, Security Errata, and more. The show is summarized as: The story behind securityerrata.eu/errata/index.html, attrition.org/errata, writing based on facts, the tough road of accountability and a whole bunch of other shit we didnt make notes of. Oh yea. a bunch of…
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BSidesLV, two boxes-of-shit up for charity auction…
For those not familiar, last year I created a new-and-improved Box-of-Shit that was put for charity auction at BSidesLV 2014. Wow, lot of dashes there, go Engrish! For those not familiar with the absolutely legendary attrition.org boxes-of-shit, take a minute to familiarize yourself with it. The box last year was the center of a heated…