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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...kid, I loved going into the woods and playing with all sorts of dangerous stuff which of course included fireworks, gas cans, hair spray, propane tanks, etc. What I learned was that its a lot harder to get things to explode than you think. If any of these terrorist had a background in chemistry or even played with anything dangerous as a kid,...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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Overestimating Threats Against Children

2008-04-10 13:00:16 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids. It's not. It's debilitating -- for us and for them It's amazing how our fears blind us. The mother and son appeared on The Today Show , where they both continued to explain why it wasn't an unreasonable thing to do: And that was...
 
Tags: subway, lexington avenue subway, york city subway, city, skenazy, skenazy chose, safe, york, 9-year-old
 
 
 
 
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On braces, baseball and Fathers Day

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2008-06-14 20:05:02 by HASH0x8b61628 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...kids had about braces when I was younger, he thought it was awesome. The picture to the left are not his braces. Landon's are black and gold, Steeler braces. In 6 weeks they will change them to Yankee blue and white. Braces have certainly come a long way since I was a kid. But my son Landon has come a long way too. Looking at him with his...
 
Tags: fathers day, happy fathers day, day, fathers day weekend, braces, landon, sunday landon, steeler braces, son landon
 
 
 
 
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On braces, baseball and Fathers Day

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2008-06-14 21:05:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...kids had about braces when I was younger, he thought it was awesome. The picture to the left are not his braces. Landon's are black and gold, Steeler braces. In 6 weeks they will change them to Yankee blue and white. Braces have certainly come a long way since I was a kid. But my son Landon has come a long way too. Looking at him with his...
 
Tags: fathers day, happy fathers day, day, fathers day weekend, braces, landon, sunday landon, steeler braces, son landon
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...kid, or that 'Passport Canada' didn't notice..." - Jeremy, commented on The Register Story In my experience, a problem of this type suggests those who implemented the site were (possibly grossly) negligent and totally clueless about security. This error should have been caught in basic testing. A penetration test should have caught it....
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Cracking passwords on a PlayStation

2007-12-03 16:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...kid sister attacking a password database using her Nintendo DS. Looks like the PS3 has an architecture that makes it especially well suited for this type of attack Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in hours. Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the...
 
Tags: password, character password, key, password database, keyspace, 256-bit aes key, 40-bit keyspace, passwords, encryption
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...kid was dinking around, I might want to do something about it ; but as long as we're all polite, why should this concern me? Pay it forward, I say Certainly this does concern ISPs. Running an open wireless network will often violate your terms of service. But despite the occasional cease-and-desist letter and providers getting pissy at people...
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...kid was dinking around, I might want to do something about it ; but as long as we're all polite, why should this concern me? Pay it forward, I say Certainly this does concern ISPs. Running an open wireless network will often violate your terms of service. But despite the occasional cease-and-desist letter and providers getting pissy at people...
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Polish Trams

2008-01-17 15:43:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...kid jumped whatever fences there were, and reverse-engineered the IR control protocol. Then he was able to play "trains" with real trains
 
Tags: city tram driver, driver, tram, tram drivers control, tv remote control, trains, real trains, tram network, physical security
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...kid out there," he said. "This appears to be something set up. Time was involved in executing it Whoever they are, he said, "they're elite, more elegant, and it's difficult for banks and many enterprises to keep pace with their activities Banks are under a great amount of pressure to balance risk and shareholder value," said Carmichael,...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees