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TED 2008: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes, Susan Blackmore Says

2008-02-29 01:30:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
British scholar Susan Blackmore says that as memes -- ideas or information that copy themselves from person to person through repetition -- are evolving much like genes. In fact, Blackmore argues that humans are mere vehicles for the replication and evolution of memes
 
Tags: memes, humans, blackmore argues, person, mere vehicles, replication, genes, information, copy
 
 
 
 
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TED 2008: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes, Susan Blackmore Says

2008-02-29 01:30:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
British scholar Susan Blackmore says that as memes -- ideas or information that copy themselves from person to person through repetition -- are evolving much like genes. In fact, Blackmore argues that humans are mere vehicles for the replication and evolution of memes
 
Tags: memes, humans, blackmore argues, person, mere vehicles, replication, genes, information, copy
 
 
 
 
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Lost Bank of Ireland laptops affect roughly 10,000 customers

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2008-04-22 09:35:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Humans run the bank, humans run the information security program (assuming one exists), and humans collect, create, store, access, distribute and destroy confidential information. This was more like "humans error", meaning more than one The bank said it had found "no evidence of fraudulent or suspicious activity on any of these accounts The...
 
Tags: bank, customers, information security, information, ireland, confidential information, ireland life option, ireland life, bank account details
 
 
 
 
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Revolution through Competition?

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...humans, but humans are unique in setting up artificial competitions and awarding prizes for success. The Olympic Games is perhaps the oldest competition that continues to this day (albeit with a hiatus of two millennia), though no doubt it wasn't the first. Technological competitions are more recent but not young
 
Tags: competition, artificial competitions, humans, olympic games, technological competitions, form, day, survival, unique
 
 
 
 
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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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2008-03-03 09:19:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Humans will always be humans, and we will always make mistakes Past Breaches January, 2008 - 5,000 Health Net employees affected by stolen laptop
 
Tags: personal information, sensitive personal information, information, providers personal information, doctors, health net, health net employees, 103-thousand doctors, social security
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...humans often have other things on our mind. It appears as though Fidelity responded well to the incident, and I agree with their risk assessment (on this incident I do not know their internal procedures for sending this information so it is difficult to comment on. A couple of questions that I don't feel comfortable about are Do Social...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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MySpace and U.S. Attorneys General Agree to Fight Sexual Predators

2008-01-17 13:12:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...humans have a well-established cognitive bias that overestimates threats against our children, so it all makes sense
 
Tags: myspace, child predators, stop child predators, attorneys, sexual predators, movie-plot threat, tiny handful, security theater, cognitive bias
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...humans, but it's a social need. It's vital to personal dignity, to family life, to society -- to what makes us uniquely human -- but not to survival If you set up the false dichotomy, of course people will choose security over privacy -- especially if you scare them first. But it's still a false dichotomy. There is no security without...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater
 
 
 
 
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Unknown IP addresses access Lexmark personnel data

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2008-02-15 15:32:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...humans make mistakes. On the other hand, I question how this all happened and what kind of training did the culprit receive in the proper handling of confidential information According to the report, Lexmark detected the breach within six hours, which helped significantly in reducing the amount of risk. It would be interesting to know the...
 
Tags: lexmark, senstive personal information, personal information, lexmark employees, information, employees, data, unknown, lexmark international
 
 
 
 
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Top 11 Reasons to Analyze Your Logs

2008-02-20 16:56:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...humans can only do it for so much OK, let's pick the important logs to review. Which one are those? The right answer is "we don't know, until we see them." Thus, to even figure out which logs to read, you need automated analysis Log a