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GPS Jamming
Fascinating PDF hosted on the Irish Lights website about current threats to GPS — the amount of chaos that can be created using relatively cheap jammers is incredible. I’m sure the twits out there with jammers think they’re the bees-knees, … Continue reading
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wikileaks.beecher.org
Wikileaks is having to play a ridiculous game of musical chairs this week. They were forced to move their hosting to Amazon, from which they were promptly booted; and then the DNS for their primary domain name wikileaks.org was deleted … Continue reading
New Orleans Scrapping Surveillance Cameras
Further proof that they just don’t work. They don’t even deter crime, much as proponents would like us to believe, they just move it. Bruce Scheier: They’re not worth it: In seven years, New Orleans’ crime camera program has yielded … Continue reading
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Scene from an Airport
With Bruce Schneier and an unnamed TSA officer. I’ve gotten to the front of the security line and handed the TSA officer my ID and ticket. TSA Officer: (Looks at my ticket. Looks at my ID. Looks at me. Smiles.) … Continue reading
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Google Caught Rotten in Germany
Mark Suckerberg isn’t the only one that doesn’t respect your privacy you know. Do No Evil my hole. Official Google Blog: Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our … Continue reading
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Another Schneier Quotable Quote
He does have a talent for it… Schneier on Security: At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the predictable array of large-scale attacks: against our … Continue reading
GameStation Owns Your Soul
Class! Slashdot: “UK games retailer GameStation revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of customers, thanks to a clause it secretly added to the online terms and conditions for its website. The 'Immortal Soul Clause' was added as … Continue reading
US Department of Security Theatre
Delighted to see the logo I voted for Bruce Schneier’s TSA logo competion winning by a hair. :)
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Chip & PIN Broken
ZDNet: Chip-and-PIN readers can be tricked into accepting transactions without a valid personal identification number, opening the door to fraud, researchers have found. Researchers at Cambridge University have found a fundamental flaw in the EMV — Europay, MasterCard, Visa — … Continue reading
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