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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:19 AM

Why I love Jack Bauer

I wanted to thank Keith Combs and his excellent blog for reminding everyone of my man-crush on Jack Bauer. Someone pointed me to a terrific website and I just had to share. It's called " Top 100 Facts About Jack Bauer ". Here are some of the best: "The
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:08 PM

Convincing Your Boss to Move to Windows Vista (Part 2)

Well, I am long overdue in posting this and I apologize. As many of you are aware, I spend about 70% of my time on the road doing international travel, so I'm usually trying to figure out how to say, "Take me to the < insert hotel chain here > hotel"
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:19 PM

People like this just frost me: Security considered a burden for users

So I want to take a second to vent. First, I recognize that I work for Microsoft and before the whole Trustworthy Computing thing (which hit it's 5 year anniversary this week) the concept of security and Microsoft was the brunt of several jokes. Not hurting
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:36 PM

Fahgetabout it: Tony Soprano comes to the world of Phishing

I got told today about a new phishing attack that the guys at Sophos found. This one seems to just cut through the smoke and mirrors. It tells you that a hit man (aka Tony and his crew) has been hired to kill you. However, for the mere fee of $80,000
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Friday, January 12, 2007 4:35 PM

Honey....have you seen my keys?

Well, it happens sooner or later. Someone (probably you) ends up setting your keys somewhere and then spend the next 20 minutes destroying your house looking for them. I actually had a friend who left in his keys inside the refrigerator once. Sad. When
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:47 PM

Airport Security: Bruce finds a YouTube gem as well

For those of you who don't regularly read Bruce Schneier's blog (or books for that matter), it's a pretty good read and one you should consider. He found a YouTube gem from the TV show "Family Guy" that shows Stewie doing some pen-testing of his own.
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:25 PM

You know you work at a software company when...

This is just too funny not to post. Things like this seem to happen pretty regularly here at Microsoft, especially when it refers to coffee. I guess coffee is liquid gold to our army of developers and running out is a serious issue. DCR is a "design change
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:28 PM

Hot Sexy Models Demonstrate Threat

I'm guessing your here to see the "sexy models". Well, I'm about to start delivering a session on Threat Modeling , which is about 100x more useful than any runway modeling. I'll leave the glamour modeling to Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum . (I especially
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:13 PM

This is the end...beautiful friend...this is the end...My only friend...the end

It's very rare that I get to work in lyrics from a Jim Morrison song into my blog, but this is a good one. I hope that everyone reading this is aware that Windows Defender (Beta 2) expired on 12/31/2006. Users running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
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