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6 Months of Security Links #2011

I’m a regular curator of daily links, and like to give overviews of my collection of curated links and posts. This is partly as there are some good sources and articles in here and as I am working on a research project which I started based on a number of books I read.
I’m sure you’ll find something interesting in the items below – there are some gems in the list – and I dare to hazard the guess you might learn something you wanted to know. 🙂
Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)
July 15, 2011 at 4:10 pm
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A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010

Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:
- Ignore
- Overreact
Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance
It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks…
@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner
It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie…
Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance
Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they…
Social Revolution – Do You Get It?
I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to …
Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking
Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne…
Company Policy or People #hr
I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac…
Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop
In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up…
Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google
I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so…
@Google, please stop with the language! #google
I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br…
Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin
For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar…
Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile
When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t…
GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard
On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th…
More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk
Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b…
Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet
I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…
Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy
I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the …
China acquires more than China… #hacks
This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to …
Implementation of Security #risk
The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small…
ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk
Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r…
Musing: Why can I fly solo?
After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p…
Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)
December 28, 2010 at 7:00 pm
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Musing: Why can I fly solo?
After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his pilot’s license I was struck by an in escapable fact: Aspiring pilots can flight solo without a license based on the opinion of their flight instructor. In fact it is a requirement that an aspiring pilot have experience flying alone before being able to get a pilot’s license.
This is naturally unthinkable when it comes to driving a car, yet an aspiring pilot without a license can. As I was musing on this I created a risk matrix.
vehicle | max. kills[1] | kills/2009[2] |
car | >60 | 1.2 million |
airplane | 2988 | 1103 |
1. Airplane Accidents
2. Car Accident (Epidemiology)
What I see as one of the main reasons that a aspiring pilot would be allowed to fly solo is simply: Aviation accidents cause less collatoral damage. And there is less chance of another pilot causing an accident.
Signs You Travel Too Much #travel
World66 sent round a list of telltale signs you travel too much. My favorite was:
When you wake up from a deep sleep during a red-eye and you have no idea where you are, where you are going, and comfortably fall back to sleep knowing that you will figure it out when you land.
You can read more on the FlyerTalk in Signs you travel too much
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