Jim McCoy

#infosec boffin, #cybersecurity sherpa and amateur chef

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

So after years of using this account for passive reading the Twitter stream I guess I need to send a tweet every now and then to keep the account. What a dumpster fire.

[thaddeus e. grugq @thegrugq]

The future of cyber war is resilience against attacks on trust.

(HT @zeynep for the inspiration/discussion)

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

So much fun to see the fraud that is wikileaks start to crumble https://t.co/k7LjSrWrsk

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Verifying myself: I am mccoy on Keybase.io. dc_ONXkc-Uc-od9eO78YTRmgnP5i8HSybVrN / https://t.co/4w5EHGI8Is

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Just left IMAX Avatar showing. The hype was justified. Amazing...

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

New plan for iPhone riches: tweak the great pocket games of the 80s enough to not get sued and release iPhone versions. iOgre anyone?

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

@zooko funny thing about the infringement claim is that centralized backup that is the point of attack re: the original (bogus) patent

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Still in a lingering food coma from dinner at French Laundry last night. Best birthday cake ever.

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Late journey home on the train watching a blind guy use a braille laptop/word processor. Very cool.

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

@ebudde as much as I hate it, comcast + cablecard-m + TiVo HD has been a much better experience than what we had with directv

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Walter Cronkite almost made it to the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, There is a strange irony there...

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

@zooko having an agent mark the checkbox is the same (legally) as you doing it yourself, but the checkbox is still necessary

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Graph theory is dangerous. As in set theory, it is too easy too see everything as a nail that fits your hammer...

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Ed, Farrah, Jacko - celeb deaths come in threes once again.

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

why is the constitution is exactly as you imagine it to be (and easy to read/well-preserved) while the bill of rights is unintelligible

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Air and space (and all the other smithsonian museums) seem smaller than I remember.

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

Hopping on. Plane for my first post-9/11 visit to Washington DC. This should be interesting...

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

@inamorata the phrase you are looking for is "post hoc ergo propter hoc" (fits on a t-shirt too)

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

@ebudde Congrats!

[Jim McCoy @mccoy]

@skrenta crm114 is the best anti-spam tool out there and can work in conjunction with sa