Chris' Recommended Online Information Sources

Culture

• Stuff On My Cat! - way better than that youtube video of the guy scruffing his cat.

News - Various News Blogs

News, when not purely sensational listings of violence and misery, is quite useful. Alternately, how can you institute change or protect yourself if you don't have sensational listings of violence and misery? News serves a useful function in the world, and even purveyors of scandal and sensationalism should be read with a quiet eye.

• Lucianne Goldberg
• Matt Drudge

Security

• AV Comparatives - Presents tests on the effectiveness of various anti-virus products.
• CastleCops - Another great security related resource.
• Seclists.Org - Security list portal.
• SecurityFocus - A great security resource since 99. Home of the full disclosure list BugTraq.

Security Breaches

• attrition - Aptly named, often lewd site. Major source of data breach info, as well as other security incidents.
• DLDOS: Data Loss Database - Open Source - attrition's data loss database. Wow, attrition is listed twice. Find out who has publicly admitted to losing data, and see if anyone you do business with has lost data. Import into an Open Document Spreadsheet after downloading.
• Chronology of Data Breaches - The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse's chronology since Choicepoint.

Weather

• The Weather Underground

WWW Information

• Uptime Report
• The Wayback Machine - The Internet Archive!

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