Christopher Leger

Listening to the current episode of security now, I heard a very disturbing story from a listener. This listener is a Charter Communications ISP customer, and put OpenDNS into his router for his DNS server. He did this to patch the huge DNS security flaw that many ISPs are reticent to fix (including Charter). However, [...]

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I was listening a recent episode of TWiT, and Jason Calacanis said a few things that were both brilliant and idiotic at the same time. He concluded that the hacker ethos of the younger generation was throwing out the bulk of the law and tradition in business – and they would eventually be beaten into [...]

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This article by Ellen Nakashima in The Washington Post (8/12/08 pg D1) about the House Committee on Energy and Commerce inquiry into ISP customer monitoring is very revealing. The article links to the actual letters sent to the Committee by many ISPs detailing their customer tracking techniques. Please find your ISP and find out what [...]

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Recently, the news had been abuzz with stories about international travelers having their laptops and other digital devices searched and detained at many international borders, including the US borders, without individualized suspicion or probable cause. Until the governments of the world come to grips with the concept of privacy rights and technology, it is up [...]

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After hearing the story about the loss/misplacement/theft/ballyhoo of a TSA laptop containing over 30,000 travelers personal information, as well as the recent news in the Royal Bank of Scotland case, the TJX case, etc. I propose a simple piece of legislation: Any personally identifying information stored digitally must be encrypted using a NIST standards compliant [...]

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Check out Edison (software here), a free Windows power management software that let’s you more finely tune your PC’s energy usage, and actually see how much energy and money you can save. There is also a paid business version called Surveyor, which when loaded on many PCs, could dramatically lower energy expenses for many types [...]

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Is email privacy completely dead? Yes, if this Central District of California case is upheld. The judge made the finding that data is not in “transmission,” but I’m “storage” when it lands on a server, even for a millisecond, and therefor its interception can not violate the 1968 Wiretap Act. This case, if allowed to [...]

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Check out the Techcrunch web tablet project. Mike Arrington has the pull to get something like this done, and I would buy several of these. If you have the experience to help out this open-source project, please do so.

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