Most people are well aware that a 29 year old NSA contractor has released various levels of classified documents to the press. This has caused a furor in the government as they both try to hold Snowden accountable and not…
Author: Samuel Liles
To the wet coast and back
I’m a professor at Purdue which means I have a 9 month work year. In other words I’m unemployed for 3 months out of the year. I don’t draw a salary for that period of time which really bites into…
The before there is data data, otherwise known as protodata
The description of data and information is a perspective based process. Anybody who has read a book on information theory could tell you that you have information that comes from data that is made up of bits. And bits are…
Internet of things. Land of the exploitable
I’ve been watching the view of corporate America suddenly discover the chittering of the Internet of things. Since much of the impetus of IPV6 was to enable this wholesale change toward a global grid of information enabled devices we shouldn’t…
Spied in the Touratech parking lot
It has a dinghy!
Ferry Ride
Not Vegan
Sunny
2013 Iron Butt Rally Bike Preparation
I decided I wanted to ride the 2013 Iron Butt Rally. I had been selected to ride in the past but was unable to do so for a variety of what long distance riders would call excuses. Deciding to ride…
R1200 GS Adventure PDM 60 Install
I’m in the process of updating the electronics and equipment on my BMW R1200 GS Adventure. In that process, I’ve been looking for a neat tidy solution that will allow me to run various devices. The solution I chose was…
Ethics, job offers, and the university
Water cooler talk can be an interesting diversion if you do not apply too much critical thinking skills to the topic. Today, I am going to go ahead and work through a discussion that comes up every year at universities.…
Cybernetics: Intro to utility and scholarship
The cybernetics academic community is a rich and varied area of research, but in my opinion it is death to the academic career. The principles of cybernetics were developed and co-opted by what would later become computer scientists. In other…
Techmount fun
For regular readers just skip this. I’m working something out with a vendor on my bike.
So you want to play a game: Command and control warfare
There is a reason the first mass media movie on cyber warfare has the computer WOPR playing games than war. To the technical well-informed individuals who make up the information technology discipline war is a game. WOPR though existed in…
Cyber Forensics: Various Posters
Chemical restoration of damaged hard drives Petroleum Industry cyber attacks and conflict