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Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

2008-06-26 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...enforce a "no photography" rule and prevent security cameras from working? Can the police enforce the same rule to avoid another Rodney King incident? Do the police get "superuser" devices that cannot be limited, and do they get "supercontroller" devices that can limit anything? How do we ensure that only they get them, and what do we do when...
 
Tags: security, wireless devices, devices, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Kill Switches and Remote Control

2008-07-01 06:48:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...enforce a "no photography" rule and prevent security cameras from working? Can the police enforce the same rule to avoid another Rodney King incident? Do the police get "superuser" devices that cannot be limited, and do they get "supercontroller" devices that can limit anything? How do we ensure that only they get them, and what do we do when...
 
Tags: wireless devices, devices, devices inevitably, digital manners policies, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students
 
 
 
 
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Whats next in Data Leakage Prevention - Keeping your barrels out of the water

2008-01-07 00:35:00 by Hugh Docherty in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...enforce access rights, the use of encryption, retention schedules, and even a time for the data to self destruct. This data-centric approach will allow companies to enforce their paper polices on electronic data and reduce the risks associated with the growing volumes of unstructured data The best way to protect your data is to manage it....
 
Tags: data leakage prevention, data leakage, data, sensitive data resides, sensitive, data-centric approach, dlp, dlp vendors, electronic data
 
 
 
 
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The Other Side of Life

2008-03-21 16:06:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...enforce those trust boundaries I first encountered this in SQL when I helped review threat models for the database engine. The engine trusts that the data on the disk was written correctly by a trusted entity (with checksums to guard against random errors), and enforce that. Instead of a slavish adherence to the principle of total mediation...
 
Tags: team, product team, engineers, security engineers, security, balance security, security professional, test managers, test
 
 
 
 
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Another brick in the wall to limit blogging

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2008-06-17 23:43:03 by HASH0x8b659fc in StillSecure, After All These Years
...enforce a new license that would require payments when a blogger puts an excerpt from an AP article in their blog. My friend Kevin McLaughlin blogged on this over at Channel Web blog today. Basically the AP says that if you excerpt more than 5 words you need to start paying them fees. Kevin reached out to me and I gave him my views on this...
 
Tags: meantime, channel web blog, meantime bloggers, blog, bloggers, zemanta, additional blog, channel web article, require bloggers
 
 
 
 
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Another brick in the wall to limit blogging

The Article has images
2008-06-18 00:36:22 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...enforce a new license that would require payments when a blogger puts an excerpt from an AP article in their blog. My friend Kevin McLaughlin blogged on this over at Channel Web blog today. Basically the AP says that if you excerpt more than 5 words you need to start paying them fees. Kevin reached out to me and I gave him my views on this...
 
Tags: meantime, channel web blog, meantime bloggers, blog, bloggers, zemanta, additional blog, channel web article, require bloggers
 
 
 
 
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Dems were for Web 2.0 before they were against it

2008-07-15 20:57:29 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...enforce it the way we enforce parking rules, which is to miss most violations, and then bring in draconian enforcement of enough violations to have a chilling effect. This will also allow the Rules Committee to wield enforcement selectively as a stick. Representative Capuano, who has described the internet as a necessary evil, would be one of...
 
Tags: house, house regulations, house project, internet, web, internet adapt, select official newspapers, long-defunct fairness doctrine, representative capuano
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...enforce long simple passphrases, I suggest that a reasonable default for expiration is 120 days Windows begins notifying you 14 days before your password expires. You can change this time period through group policy. I was in a similar situation recently. Last month my domain password expired while I was in Australia for TechEd there. I could...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots

2008-01-28 07:12:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...enforce the International Laws of War in the battlefield in a manner that is believed achievable, by creating a class of robots that not only conform to International Law but outperform human soldiers in their ethical capacity It is too early to tell whether this venture will be successful. There are daunting problems remaining The...
 
Tags: ethical, ethical constraint set, ethical robotic warfighter, ethics, ethical boundaries, international protocols, war tradition subscribes, war, international