Inside Tom's [Shrinking] Brain

In case you haven't noticed I haven't been around my blogs for quite a long time.
What's that? You hadn't noticed? You're just here by accident or maybe you're simply clicking/tapping around one of my bios somewhere on some neglected profile page...
Well fine, no worries. I just wanted to say that I see that some blog-cleaning is in order before I start posting again. Things need to be updated here (kinda like your vacation cabin that's been sitting untouched since before you took that spontaneous...

Wow this is hard..
It's 10:00 am on Saturday morning. I'm starting to put together my first blog post in two years and I'm sitting here with a brain feeling like it's filled with molasses. Thoughts that should flow, or at least dribble out are only coming out in slow sticky...

To start with I want to say that Microsoft is far from the only one that makes using their software harder than it has to be, but they do it *so* well..
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Today I was getting caught up on my email and was reading a SANS newsletter that included an entry:...

'Mascot' image from the Mozilla ADD-ONS Blog
Continuing on a topic from my last post I want to focus on the security threat created by the 'rapid release' schedule the Firefox browser is now on.
I won't dispute the positive aspects of this move for Mozilla, however from a security standpoint it creates multiple hazards. A 'Ready or not, here we come' dictum may be OK in some cases, but it's a recipe for trouble when it comes to security....