Archive for June, 2009

Obama administration swears in DEFCON founder

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

“Hacker Jeff Moss, founder of computer security conferences DEFCON and Black Hat, has been sworn in as one of the new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) of the DHS. Moss, who goes by the handle ‘the Dark Tangent’ says he was surprised to be asked to join the council and that he was nominated to bring an ‘outside perspective’ to its meetings. He said, ‘I know there is a new-found emphasis on cybersecurity, and they’re looking to diversify the members and to have alternative viewpoints. I think they needed a skeptical outsider’s view because that has been missing.’”

Via Slashdot

Palm Saturday

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

http://daringfireball.net/2009/06/palm_saturday

The iPhone was introduced at Macworld Expo on 9 January 2007. On that day, Palm Inc. was screwed.