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Internet Censorship
via Schneier on Security by schneier on April 06, 2008
A review of Access Denied, edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain, MIT Press: 2008.In 1993, Internet pioneer John Gilmore said "the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it", and we believed him. In 1996, cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow issued his 'Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace' at the World Economic Forum at...
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Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police
via Schneier on Security by schneier on April 29, 2008
Really:The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB "thumb drive" that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use to the 350 law-enforcement experts attending a company conference Monday.The device contains 150 commands that can dramatically cut the time it takes to gather...
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The Doghouse: Passwordsafe.com
via Schneier on Security by schneier on May 04, 2008
This isn't my Password Safe. This is PasswordSafe.com. Password Safe is an open-source application that lives on your computer and encrypts your passwords. PasswordSafe.com lets you store your passwords on their server. They promise not to look at them.Can I trust PasswordSafe?As we mentioned, pretty much every function is automated, no-one here ever sees your information as it's all...
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State Department Loses Hundreds of Laptops
via Schneier on Security by schneier on May 05, 2008
Oops:As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings.Bet you anything those laptops weren't encrypted.
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Our Inherent Capability for Evil
via Schneier on Security by schneier on April 15, 2008
This is interesting:What took place on a peaceful Californian university campus nearly four decades ago still has the power to disturb. Eager to explore the way that "situation" can impact on behaviour, the young psychologist enrolled students to spend two weeks in a simulated jail environment, where they would randomly be assigned roles as either prisoners or guards.Zimbardo's volunteers...
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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren't Personal Data
via Schneier on Security by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by gabopagan scaryHomeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says: QUESTION: Some are raising that the privacy aspects of this thing, you know, sharing of that kind of data, very personal data, among four countries is quite a scary thing. SECRETARY CHERTOFF: Well, first of all, a fingerprint is hardly personal data because you leave it on glasses and silverware and articles all over...
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Giving Up Passwords for Chocolate
via Schneier on Security by schneier on April 20, 2008
I am just sick of this story: people are willing to reveal their passwords for a bar of chocolate.I haven't seen any indication they actually verified that the passwords are real. I would certainly give up a fake password for a bar of chocolate.
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What Is the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Inititative?
via Schneier on Security by schneier on May 12, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has a new $200 million Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Inititative (CNCI). Congress is happy to fund it, but kind of wants to know what it's going todo. I have to admit, I'm kind of curious myself.
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Tourists, Not Terrorists
via Schneier on Security by schneier on May 07, 2008
... were captivated by the car-carrying capacity of local ferries."Where these gentlemen live, they don't have vehicle ferries. They were fascinated that a ferry could hold that many cars and wanted to show folks back home," FBI Special Agent Robbie Burroughs said Monday.[...]Two weeks ago, the men appeared at a U.S. Embassy and identified themselves as the men in the photo released to the ...
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The Ethics of Vulnerability Research
via Schneier on Security by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
The standard way to take control of someone else's computer is by exploiting a vulnerability in a software program on it. This was true in the 1960s when buffer overflows were first exploited to attack computers. It was true in 1988 when the Morris worm exploited a Unix vulnerability to attack computers on the Internet, and it's still how most...
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