Rachel Newhouse

Born Jun. 16, 1978
http://www.hallontheweb.com/rachel/
http://findcarrie.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=murder1&action=display&num=1095006989

Murder Victim. A student at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, where she majored in nutritional science. She disappeared about midnight on November 12, 1998, while walking home from a fraternity party at the Tortilla Flat Restaurant. Despite help from the public, nothing was heard from Newhouse until several months later when her body was found buried on the property of a convicted sexual offender named, Rex Allan Krebs. Krebs had spent most of his life in and out of prison for various crimes. Along with Rachel’s body was that of Aundria Lynn Crawford who disappeared days earlier. Krebs was arrested and charged with stalking, kidnapping, two counts of rape, and first degree murder. Krebs was later convicted of the murders and given the sentence of death. He is currently on San Quentin Prison’s death row. The story was seen on “America’s Most Wanted” and on an episode of A&E’s “American Justice” entitled, “The Monster Inside.”

SC World Congress Sound Bites

A Much delayed post, but I never got around to fitting it in while out of town. I attended last year’s SC Wold Congress in New York at the Sheraton. I look back on it now and it was influential in my search for new employment for companies on the leading edge of security.

I wanted to post up a few sound bites, I picked up from the congress… Note that these are now 9 months old:

In October 2009:
“If Facebook were a country it would be the 4th largest in the world”

“Ashton Kusher has more twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland”

“80% of companies today use social media in their recruiting process”

From the CSO of AT&T Stephen Hutnik, “70% of their bandwidth traffic is malicious or junk”

“AT&T is working on ‘Black Cloud’ services for intercepting and stopping DDoS attacks on their network, before they get to their intended targets”.

That last part concerns me as it involves the ISPs to get smart about the routes and type of traffic they are sending – which means they’ll have to scan it first to determine it’s nature and destination. Who’s to say what’s negative or positive, appropriate or indecent, private or public – privacy rights should be watched closely with what ever AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon or any other service provider decides what to do with traffic running over it’s networks.