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Larry Seltzer |
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Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever since—much to his own amazement—he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find absolutely no hits on any of these +products on Google.) His work at Desktop Software included programming the UCSD p-System, a virtual machine-based operating system with portable binaries that pre-dated Java by more than 10 years.
For several years, he wrote corporate software for Mathematica Policy Research (they're still in business!) and Chase Econometrics (not so lucky) before being forcibly thrown into the consulting market. He bummed around the Philadelphia consulting and contract-programming scenes for a year or two before taking a job at NSTL (National Software Testing Labs) developing product tests and managing contract testing for the computer industry, governments and publication.
In 1991 Larry moved to Massachusetts to become Technical Director of PC Week Labs (now eWeek Labs). He moved within Ziff Davis to New York in 1994 to run testing at Windows Sources. In 1995, he became Technical Director for Internet product testing at PC Magazine and stayed there till 1998.
Since then, he has been writing for numerous other publications, including Fortune Small Business, Windows 2000 Magazine (now Windows and .NET Magazine), ZDNet and Sam Whitmore's Media Survey.
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2008-12-01 It's Time to Sign the Root Zone Already
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2008-11-23 Internet Freedom and Security Are Necessarily at Odds
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2008-11-18 Flash! Firefox No Longer an Automatic Defense Against Browser Drive-Bys
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2008-11-14 Standards Come to Anti-malware Testing
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2008-11-11 Can We Secure Government Networks? Yes, We Can, Theoretically
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2008-11-07 Malware Detection Goes Hybrid
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2008-11-04 Can the Air Force Change the Internet Rules of Engagement?
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2008-11-03 Vulnerabilities Fade from the Threat Foreground
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2008-10-29 The Global Network Initiative Balances Freedoms and Business Needs
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2008-10-27 Are We Ready for the Windows Server Worm?
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2008-10-21 Google Can't Search Its Own Documents
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2008-10-20 Whitelisting Getting Ready for the Big Leagues
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2008-10-14 What Makes a Critical Vulnerability Critical?
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2008-10-11 The Risks In Wildcard Certificates
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2008-10-07 Challenging the Immutable Laws Of Security
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2008-10-04 Passports: Another Bad Use of Self-Signed Certificates
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2008-09-30 Enterprise Security and the Importance of Data Protection
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2008-09-25 Comcast's Net-Neutral Future
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2008-09-21 Mark Russinovich on the Future of Security
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2008-09-16 How to Really Delete Data for Absolutely Sure
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2008-09-15 Still Overflowing After All These Years
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2008-09-10 When Windows Goes All 64-Bit
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2008-09-08 McAfee Putting Malware Signatures in the Cloud
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2008-09-03 Google's Chrome Shakes Up Browser Design
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2008-08-27 Private Browsing and the Enterprise
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2008-08-26 Why Can't Google Stop Malware Ads on Adwords?
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2008-08-22 Red Hat Digital Keys Violated by Intruder
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2008-08-20 Browsers And Unsigned Certificates
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2008-08-20 The Untrustworthiness of Self-Signed Certificates
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2008-08-16 Security Software Reviews Done Wrong
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2008-08-13 Big Questions About OpenID After Recent Vulnerabilities
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2008-08-11 Is There Also A Russian Cyber War Against Georgia
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2008-08-06 Is the Microkernel Making a Slow Return to Microsoft?
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2008-08-01 ICANN Plans for Disaster: A Registry Failure
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2008-07-29 Are Security Bugs Special?
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2008-07-27 Financial Site Security Research Weak On Methodology and Timeliness
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2008-07-26 DNS Vulnerability Crisis Brings DNSSEC To Forefront Again
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2008-07-22 Market Solutions to the IP Address Squeeze
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2008-07-20 What if You Fell Through a Manhole?
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2008-07-13 The iPhones Are Coming! The iPhones Are Coming!
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2008-07-08 Yes, Domain Tasting Will End
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2008-07-03 Who Is Running the Most Secure Browser?
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2008-06-30 Backup Becomes a Standard PC Feature
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2008-06-26 The Era of .Whatever
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2008-06-25 Microsoft Responds to the SQL Injection Problem
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2008-06-22 Quantity vs. Quality in Security Software Testing
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2008-06-18 First Impressions of Firefox 3
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2008-06-16 Security Bonuses for Vista Programmers
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2008-06-11 Microsoft Blogs Supplement Patch Tuesday News
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2008-06-06 The Big Bullseye On Adobe
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2008-06-04 Learning to Love UAC
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2008-06-02 The Anti-Malware Certification Problem
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2008-05-27 How Does Your Enterprise Manage Digital Certificates?
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2008-05-21 Weapons of Mass Denial
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2008-05-21 So Your Private Key Has Been Compromised
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2008-05-19 OECD Calls for Action on IP Address Depletion
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2008-05-14 CME RIP
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2008-05-09 How Can We Improve Code Signing?
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2008-05-05 Good Worms Are a Bad Idea
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2008-04-30 The Battle for Your Browser
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2008-04-25 Where`s My Green Bar?
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2008-04-22 The Mystery of the Lost Notebook
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2008-04-18 Microsoft Will Kill ActiveX Controls - If You Ask
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2008-04-14 The Chinese e-Wars: Reports from the Front
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2008-04-09 Car Remotes Hacked
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2008-04-04 Federal Judge Warns of E-Discovery Pitfalls
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2008-04-02 The Long Road for NAC
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2008-03-31 Bad Security Week for Apple
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2008-03-25 Defining Objectionable Content
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2008-03-21 Can You Trust TRUSTe?
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2008-03-17 The Massive Messaging Machine
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2008-03-13 The Secret China-U.S. Hacking War
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2008-03-11 Electronic Data as Legal Evidence
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2008-03-10 Firewire—The Skeleton Keyhole into Your System
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2008-03-05 The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008
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2008-03-03 A Racket`s Brewing in the Code Signing Cert Business
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2008-02-26 Pakistan Drops the BGP Bomb
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2008-02-24 Five-Year Security Review
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2008-02-20 Dare to Trust OpenID
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2008-02-13 Is a Thaw Coming in the OTP Winter?
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2008-02-12 The Futility of IPv4 Address Recycling
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2008-02-11 The Anti-Malware Industry Tries to Save Itself
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2008-02-05 Postini and SAAS Still a Great Idea
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2008-02-03 Standardizing the Federal Desktop
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2008-01-30 ICANN Actually Does Something About Domain Tasting
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2008-01-26 Perimeter Security and the Great D.C. Porn-Surfing Scandal
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2008-01-22 My Address Is None.Of.Your.Business
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2008-01-17 ICANN Kill Two Birds with One Stone
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2008-01-16 Who Wants to Pay Twice for the Same Software?
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2008-01-10 Reforming the DisGrace Period
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2008-01-09 NetSol Abuses the Process in Order to Save It
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2008-01-07 Phishing at the Top Level
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2008-01-02 More Bad Drivers on the Information Superhighway
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2007-12-26 Instability and Modern Anti-Virus Software
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2007-12-19 Your Spammer May Be a Victim, Too
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2007-12-16 DNSSEC Is Dead, Stick a Fork in It
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2007-12-10 How Not to Engender Confidence in Your Customers
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2007-12-05 Your PC Is Vulnerable Without Browser Protection
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2007-12-03 Browser Insecurity Wars Still Rage
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2007-11-28 Site Hacking for Malice and Profit
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2007-11-26 Microsoft Could Do More: SMTP Authentication
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2007-11-21 Is the Internet Governable?
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2007-11-19 Microsoft Could Do More: Windows Update as a Hosting Service
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