TAG: security
Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist
"Rossmiller succeeds by exploiting a fundamental flaw in al Qaeda's famously decentralized organization. The absence of a strict hierarchy makes it pretty easy for a cunning person to mix among the terrorists."
Tags: terrorism postmodernism security internet
After seeing the woman who stole her identity in a Starbucks she chased her down . . . totally crazy.
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"Stratfor specializes in providing situational awareness, focused insight and actionable intelligence in the areas of geopolitics, security and public policy to help our clients prepare for uncertainties and take action for maximizing results."
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Screening People with Clearances
"We don't have infinite dollars to spend on security. We need to choose where to spend our money, and we're best off if we spend it in ways that give us the most security for our dollar."
Tags: security airports travel design
"In many countries, including the United States, passports will soon be equipped with RFID chips. And you don't want one of these chips in your passport."
"The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that."
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A False Sense of Insecurity [PDF]
How does the risk of terrorism measure up against everyday dangers?
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Lawyers, Priests, and AOL's Data Release
"Here’s the bottom line: what’s inside our minds is no longer private (or a lot less private). Nothing we do on the Internet is private. And there is a not insignificant risk that if we don’t come to terms with this as a society."
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Prove your human by identifying hot people.
Social Engineering, the USB Way
What happens when you leave a bunch of USB drives around a credit unions with trojan's on them? Everyone plugs them in.
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"The "Brief Safe" is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling."
The Torn-Up Credit Card Application
Chase accepts a taped together credit card application with a different address and phone number . . . scary.
Tags: creditcard security
Look what I clicked on ... Snoop on the world's top secret sites from your desktop
"Google Earth, irritatingly, won't allow you to type in "top secret military installation" and then provide a handy list of sites to look at."
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Cisco Harasses Security Researcher
"If companies have the power to censor information about their products they don't like, then we as consumers have less information with which to make intelligent buying decisions."
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Security researcher quits job and blows whistle on Cisco's fatal flaws
"Now he's under a restraining order from Cisco, arising from his disclosure of critical flaws in Cisco's routers that threaten the world's information infrastructure."
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Ted Koppel: "We cannot even begin to control the growing army of businesses and industries that monitor what we buy, what we watch on television, where we drive . . . "
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Routine airport security won't thwart jihadists, but it does inconvenience and endanger the rest of us.
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An elite force takes on the dark side of computing
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Dashboard Leaves Macs Vulnerable
"A security hole in Dashboard could expose users of Apple Computer's new Tiger operating system to attack, and may put personal information like passwords and credit card data at risk."
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Turns out that her secret question was the name of her favorite pet . . . idiot
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Wired Magazine: They've never met a padlock - or six-pin paracentric cylinder - they couldn't crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world.
Default passwords for a ton of routers
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