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SaaS Snake Oil Top Ten, with video

2008-05-28 20:57:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...snake oil salesmen This site was bound to be secure, right? Wrong Here's a new video to detail the inadequacies of both these services, at the same time But, as my disdain for these con artists grew yet stronger, it occurred to me (with the suggestion of an unnamed accomplice) that we needed a Letterman-like Top Ten list In this case SaaS...
 
 
 
 
 
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TIBCO Leaps Ahead in CEP with Insightful Acquisition

2008-06-24 18:20:42 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...snake oil. TIBCO obviously understands the difference between snake oil, smoke-and-mirrors marketing, and the technology it takes to solve real operational problems My hats off and warm congratulations to the teamin Palo Alto for demonstrating, yet again, why TIBCO is committed to solving real customer problems withrealisticsolutions Maybe...
 
 
 
 
 
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TIBCO Leaps Ahead in CEP with Insightful Acquisition

2008-06-24 18:20:42 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...snake oil. TIBCO obviously understands the difference between snake oil, smoke-and-mirrors marketing, and the technology it takes to solve real operational problems My hats off and warm congratulations to the teamin Palo Alto for demonstrating, yet again, why TIBCO is committed to solving real customer problems withrealisticsolutions Maybe...
 
 
 
 
 
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Show 003 - An Interview with Marcus Ranum

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2006-07-14 19:10:27 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Snake Oil Patch Tuesday Richard Feynman DeWalt cordless screwdriver Subscribe to IEEE Security & Privacy
 
 
 
 
 
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A rose by any other name

2008-02-21 00:10:25 by HASH0x8473364 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...snake oil out there, but I think the shake out is by real players staying and the BS walking
 
 
 
 
 
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A rose by any other name

2008-02-21 01:10:07 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...snake oil out there, but I think the shake out is by real players staying and the BS walking
 
 
 
 
 
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INFOSEC - Schneier: Lots of security software is 'snake oil'

2008-04-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3c83c in Network World on Security
 
Bruce Schneier is one of the foremost experts on cryptography and is a well-known security author and commentator. He is the founder of the managed security services company Counterpane, which was acquired in October 2006 by BT. Schneier sat down with IDG News Service at the Infosec security show in London to talk about the effectiveness of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading on Security - 2

2008-05-09 12:20:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Snake Bytes " on DarkReading. "We are all in the business of stopping just enough crime to keep us in business." Wow! Definitely a must read Marcus Ranum on logging in Start Trek ( read the whole thread ): "What do you expect from a starship that runs on Windows-24k? Microsoft added support for syslog in 2348 - citing customer demand - but...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Ethics of Vulnerability Research

2008-05-14 11:29:45 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...snake-oil cryptography, software, Internet protocols, voting machines, and fare card and other payment systems. Many of these systems had someone in charge of "security" on their teams, but it wasn't someone who thought like an attacker This mindset is difficult to teach, and may be something you're born with or not. But in order to train...
 
 
 
 
 
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Crypto-Gram Tenth Anniversary Issue

2008-05-15 11:13:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...snake-oil security products. S