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• What You Learned in School About Airplane Flight Was Probably Wrong
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• My Preferred Definition of Information Security
• The Diffie-Hellman Protocol
• Differences in SYN Packets
• The Birthday Attack Explained
• Mac vs. PC Security in One Sentence
• A UNIX/Linux Permissions Refresher
• Cross Site Scripting Explained
• A tar Reference
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• Expect More Human-Based Infosec Attacks
• CISSPs Do Need to be Technical
• The Under-appreciated Danger of Password Reset Mechanisms
• Encoding vs. Encryption
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• Free Will and Determinism as the Core of Political Disagreement
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• The Worst Mistake People Make in Political Arguments
• How to Debate an Idiot

Philosophy & Religion

• An Atheist Debate Reference
• Meaning is an Illusion
• The Best Response to "Atheists are arrogant".
• The Only Class That Matters
• Free Will: Absolute vs. Practical
• A Simplified Argument Against Free Will
• Happiness: Creation vs. Collection
• Want: A Disease Based in Low Self-Esteem
• How to See If Your Morality Comes from God
• Outrageous Beliefs Are Not Equal to Claims They Are False
• Was the Last Time Your Last?
• How I Became an Atheist
• A Letter to Religious Moderates
• Philosophy, Science, and Religion: Three Ways of Learning About the World

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• Building a Lifestream Interface
• Thoughts on the Future of the IT Field
• The Steam, Water, and Ice of Modern Communications
• Social Media as a Personal API
• Could You Prove Evolution?
• How to Pronounce "Linux"
• My Only Shot at Immortality
• How to Pronounce "Ubuntu"
• Does Acceleration Depend More on Horsepower or Torque?
• The Craziest Thing You'll Ever Learn about Pi
• How to Pronounce "OS X"
• How to Pronounce "Rijndael"

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• Lifecasting and Society
• Please Submit Your Own Content to Social Media Sites
• The Bimbo and the Caveman
• Is it Wrong to Have Children?
• The Quality Of a Society
• Socialism and Anarchy

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• CloudShark lets you upload your packet captures to the Cloud | http://t.co/gFvsW9vq <--- Like so many things these days: cool, but scary.
• Hacker Dojos Are Not Factories for Idea People | http://t.co/e2g1HV5L #programming
• "The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave."
• The Problem With Daniel Dennett’s Free Will | http://t.co/MeCJCK2n #philosophy #freewill
• Applying Fundamentals to Health and Information Security | http://t.co/yfcEs327 #health #infosec
• Building the Ideal 100-word Password List | http://t.co/yll71uJ9 #websec #infosec

What I'm Reading

• The Quotable Hitchens
• Game of Thrones: Book 2
• How the Mind Works
• Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
• Web Application Hacker's Handbook, Second Edition
• Arguably (Christopher Hitchens)
• Lord of the Flies
• Lying (Sam Harris)

Favorite Books and Essays

• The Ethics of Belief, William Clifford
• The America the Banana Republic
• Why The Future Doesn't Need Us, Bill Joy
• What I Believe, Bertrand Russell
• The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris
• God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
• 1984, George Orwell

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