I just ran through a set of security documentation by some large cloud service providers and an old marketing campaign came to mind, as documented by the New York Times:
Note the “T-Zone”.
“T for Taste…T for Throat…”. They forgot T for Threat to your life.
Very soon I expect we will be able to help customers describe and measure some concrete risk differences among cloud providers, as I described in my presentation on logging last month at BayThreat.
A map of the world with current “actual events” is viewable here.
Event categories include power outage, vehicle incident/accident, flash flood, cold wave, snow storm, explosion, biohazard, epcidemic…but I did not see “cyber” anything.
The closest might be “Technological Disaster“, but even that seems to be caused by weather.
Sixteen people are believed trapped in an Australian cinema after the roof partially collapsed after heavy rain…
Instructables shows how copper, zinc and citric acid with an LED create the simple and elegant lemon battery hour flower.
Solder the 4 copper cells in series to the led, respecting polarity.
Put 1 drop of lemon juice on each cell.
And voila’, enjoy one hour of free light
The new SSD 310 drive advertised by Intel is said to be 10 times less weight than the standard 2.5-inch model. Marketing seems to be centered around performance, claiming a 60% boost in system speed. Although some might think of this in terms of future devices and improvements to tablets, it also changes the threat model for data.
It now is more easy than ever to physically steal data — remove and hold a drive undetected in the palm of one’s hand.
With coins, asset value is clearly written on the outside.