Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at bit.ly, a large link shortening service, has done an analysis on some of their link data to get an idea of how long links remain “alive” or “popular”. The measure was to look at 1,000 links and graph the number of hits that a link ... Read More

I recently came across two smallish examples of where randomness was the solution to two perplexing problems. That is, rolling the dice seems to help you out of a situation where a planned method was not giving you what you wanted. The first issue is the problem of how to ... Read More

A recent study has examined the prevalence of grade inflation at US universities over the last 100 years or so, and has found some identifiable patterns. The chart below shows the increase in grades between various types of schools in the primary colors, with the grey representing (unnamed individual schools) ... Read More

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have recently published research into social networks which indicates  that when just 10 percent of a network steadfastly holds a given belief, then that belief will eventually be adopted by the majority of the society. These group of 10% “believers” are referred to as a ... Read More

Hiya ! We've been matching mentors and mentees at lightning speed in the past days and as one would come to expect, we have much more mentees than we have mentors.At first glance this would seem natural, the infosec people I've met all had one thing in common : their ... Read More

I have to be honest. When Marisa came out with the whole infosecmentors idea, I must have been her worst critic. Infosecmentors was launched with the idea of bringing mentors and mentees together during BH/DC in July and I was totally rebuffed. I loved the idea, but I felt excluded ... Read More