The Lippard Blog

 OpenBSD 5.9 (current as of this post is 7.5) introduced the "pledge" system call and 6.4 introduced the "unveil" system...

 After seeing a CNN headline " Exclusive: 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years," I thought it was only ...

 I was thinking about writing a blog post about file system immutability flags in OpenBSD, and thought I'd ask ChatGPT to write it for m...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2019. Graham T. Allison, Destined for War: Can Ame...

Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA14) has circulated a draft bill, the "Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act" (or ACDC Act), which amends the Co...

In Andy Greenberg's Wired article on February 9, 2017, "Trump Cybersecurity Chief Could Be a 'Voice of Reason," he write...

I've been using OpenBSD since way back at release 2.3 in 1998, so I've gone through upgrades that took a fair amount of work due to ...

I thought that Google Authenticator might be a quick and easy two-factor authentication solution for VPN access to my personal network, so I...

While reading Ross Anderson's massive tome, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Systems (second edition), I came acros...

As this blog has reported on multiple prior occasions (in 2006 , 2008 , and 2009 , at the very least), the fact that U.S. airport security s...

LulzSec breached the security of the Arizona Department of Public Service (DPS) at some point in the past, and on June 23 around 4 p.m. Ariz...

I've been a holdout on upgrading to a smart phone, in part because I haven't paid over $100 for a mobile phone since they were the s...

I've written a pair of blog posts for Global Crossing's "Defense in Depth Security" blog based on recent work by Rick Wash...

I've joined the team of Global Crossing bloggers--please check out my initial post at Global Crossing blogs, "Forget passwords!&quo...

The 2009 Hogan and Hartson Jurimetrics Lecture in honor of Lee Loevinger was given on the afternoon of November 5 at Arizona State Universi...