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Farady Cage   July 17, 2008 A notion that came to me during some random talk at Usenix: if you put someone in a faraday cage, the first thing they'd do (once they noticed their cell phone wasn't working) would be to drill some holes in it to let in some electromagnetic radiation. I see this as an analogy to computer security (probably security in general). If the protection mechanism causes too much inconvenience, people will actively work to get around it, which will, in the end, defeat its whole purpose. The first caption reads: Hey, my cell phone isn't working in here. The second reads: Here, let me drill a few holes in the wall, maybe that'll help. On the bottom: Life in a Faraday Cage OR An Analogy for Security Sorry, the Usenix batch were all scanned in at once. I don't have time right now to change the contrast and brightness to improve legibility.

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
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