Morning Linkage (Jul 30)

Two from Scheier on the recent­ly dis­cussed top­ic of cloud computing
and stor­age. I find the com­ments on his blog to be of high­er quality
than most.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/risks_of_cloud.html
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/cloud_computing.html

Summary of Kaminsky’s talk on the SSL cert spoof­ing. Clearer than most.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/

As if you could­n’t tell it’s DefCon time. I’ve been fas­ci­nat­ed by the
hack­able badges of the last cou­ple of years. Here’s a pre­view of this
year’s badge and a link to the source code.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/defcon-badge/

There have been some great musi­cal guests on Sesame street. So after
all that scary tech stuff a lit­tle some­thing to remind you of what it
“tastes like being poor and small and Popsicles in summer.”
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/30181