Funny Foto #38

By Michael Seese

As I was driving home yesterday, I saw this car in front of me.

(Obviously, I blanked out his license plate; I am a privacy professional, after all.) 

Though it's hard to see (for some reason, my camera's flash felt compelled to go off) his license plate frame reads "NOTARY PUBLIC."

So I wondered: how would he react if someone tapped on his window while stopped at a traffic light and asked him to notarize something...

Pre-Election Day Funny

By Michael Seese

Tomorrow is Election Day. So I won't have to post any more snarky comments until 2016. (Though if I adhere to the traditional stumping timeline, I suppose I should start in 2 ½ years.)

I thought this represented the definitive commentary on the whole stinkin' process. 

In several previous posts, I've talked about targeted ads. To state the obvious, a targeted ad is supposed to resonate with me because my browsing habits supposedly have put me into various demographic buckets. 

I see them all the time in the infosec and privacy e-newsletters I subscribe to. I also subscribe to the "Word Of The Day" from Merriam-Webster. 

Here are two of the ads I saw last week:

Hmmm.

What makes the irony even more delicious is that day's word of the day:

Clearly, the universe has a wicked sense of humor. 

As I said last year, remember the old Chicago adage: "Vote early and vote often."

Does anyone care to make a bold prediction as to the electoral vote count? Mine is 298-240. I'm not saying who will win, though...

Helping A Fellow Propeller Head Writer

It gives me great pleasure to write this entry. I'm always happy to help out any fellow author, more so if he or she is a friend.

The other day I had a luncheon with the IAPP, a professional privacy organization that I belong to. In attendance were two former colleagues, Jack and Matt.

Early on in the lunch conversation, Matt said, "So I hear you have a book of ghost stories that has been published."

I said, "I do. And a book on infosec."

As it turns out, Matt has written his first book, also on information security, specifically penetration testing. It's titled, "Wireless Reconnaissance in Penetration Testing." He's thrilled, and I'm thrilled for him. There is nothing like the feeling of knowing that your first book is coming out...well, actually holding the book probably beats it. But he'll know that feeling soon enough.

He expects it to be published in Q3 of this year. But for now, it is available for pre-order on Amazon. I'm sure once it comes out, I'll enjoy reading it. Matt is one of those people--like me--who has good technical chops, but can explain things in human terms. (Though between you all and me, I think his technical knowledge is deeper than mine.)

So check out the preview now, and check back here at some point in the future for another shout-out.

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