160 bits …SHAttered!!!

We knew this day was coming. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for every algorithm drops to zero. Yes, I’m paraphrasing Tyler Durden. It’s slightly less amazing than finding a unicorn in the woods and I don’t think many will remember where they were and what they were doing on the day they…

Certification Suckers

In my moderately cynical view, vendor certification exists for one reason: To enable vendors to sell more stuff. Cisco, Microsoft, Amazon and VMWare (and all vendors, really) need people to be certified in the use of their products because it enables their salespeople to be able to come into a prospective customer’s office and say,…

You Geek? I Geek.

When is the last time you sat down at your desk and really went full-geek on something just because you found it fascinating? No, not because you needed to know it for work or because you wanted to build up your skill set for some future position; I’m talking about full-on burial in a topic…