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Assessing Technical Risks for Startups – New Tech Leader Series | kate{mats}

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Good check list from Kate Matsudaira.

Assessing Technical Risks for Startups – New Tech Leader Series | kate{mats}

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Good check list from Kate Matsudaira.

BBC News – Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Interesting article by BBC, provides simplified explanation for Black-Scholes model: a formula that is used model market for option-like financial instruments

BBC News – Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Interesting article by BBC, provides simplified explanation for Black-Scholes model: a formula that is used model market for option-like financial instruments

BBC News – Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Interesting article by BBC, provides simplified explanation for Black-Scholes model: a formula that is used model market for option-like financial instruments

Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

“This announcement means that Dropbox never had any mechanism to prevent employees from accessing your files, and it means that Dropbox never had the crypto smarts to ensure the privacy of your files and never had the smarts to only decrypt the files f…

Alexey Navalny – One man’s cyber-crusade against Russian corruption : The New Yorker, APR 4, 2011 by Julia Ioffe.

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

An excellent (as always) write-up from New Yorker about a rising star in Russian modern politics Alexey Navalny and the current state of corruption in Russia ( fake government contracts, kickbacks, etc). What is interesting to know (and I happen to ag…

Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics

Monday, April 4th, 2011

“Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them”
About feds “enforcement” efforts for economic crimes. An excellent article (needs aprox. 30 mins to read)

How not to post a security article | John Graham-Cumming

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

an excellent follow up on a hoax story about Samsung installing keyloggers on its laptops.

Physics Buzz: The High Water Mark of American Science [Remains of Super Collider project, in Tx, scrapped in 1993]

Friday, March 25th, 2011

“A group of physicists went AWOL from the American Physical Society conference in Dallas this week to explore the ruins of the nearby Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC was to be the world’s largest and most ambitious physics experiment. It would …