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Doctoring Photographs without Photoshop

2008-08-27 07:27:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...photographs are the least of our worries. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption The photographs presented by Colin Powell at the United Nations...
 
Tags: photographs, actual photographs, captions, yellow captions influence, powell, colin powell, change, chemical weapons, photoshop
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Photographs aren't being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn't known for its photography. Even those manufactured terrorist plots that the US government likes to talk about -- the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 -- no photography Given that real terrorists, and even...
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists
 
 
 
 
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Digital Thieves Swiping Online Pics For Profit

2008-06-18 13:06:08 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...photographs, but Steve Miller and his wife, who were conveniently seated in the middle of the front row in the Royal Albert Hall in March, noticed that everyone around them was taking photographs and the staff werent stopping them. So they took some, too - about a dozen nice, bright, clear, good-quality concert photographs. Miller put them up...
 
Tags: good-quality concert photographs, photographs, flickr user, flickr, royal albert hall, user, single muscle twitch, miller, steve miller
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics

2009-01-08 12:53:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...photographs on driver's licenses. Fingerprints have been used to identify people at crime scenes for more than 100 years What is new about biometrics is that computers are now doing the recognizing: thumbprints, retinal scans, voiceprints, and typing patterns. There's a lot of technology involved here, in trying to both limit the number of...
 
Tags: biometric systems, biometric, biometric database, hard biometric, biometrics, fingerprint reader, fingerprint, biometric identification system, vastly improve security
 
 
 
 
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If politicians can imagine sniper fire, don't be surprised what people can imagine on their resumes.

2008-03-26 02:09:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...photographs and video taken at the time told a very different story. Senator Clinton's story was then awarded with "Four Pinocchios", signifying a "real whopper As someone who spent many years in the former Yugoslavia during the war, I can attest to the fact that you know when you are coming under sniper or mortar fire, there is nothing to...
 
Tags: sniper, sniper fire, clinton, senator clinton, tuzla air base, air base, dobbs, michael dobbs, real whopper
 
 
 
 
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University of Florida doctor loses job over breach

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2008-05-22 09:47:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...photographs, names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and Medicare numbers Breach Description University of Florida officials will be notifying about 1,900 patients of a UF plastic surgeon that their private health information might have been breached after the information was managed and disposed of improperly Reference URL...
 
Tags: medical information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, patient information, florida, february, computer february
 
 
 
 
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Wow - AI Bot Phishing! Cool!

2007-12-11 21:20:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...photographs. So far, CyberLover has just been spotted in Russian chat rooms, but others are urged to use caution while chatting." (original source here Wow, this is cool! Does it just match your perceptions about what the life in the 21st century would be like? :-) Robots stealing from people - how crass And, pleeeeease, don't just respond...
 
Tags: russian chat, russian chat forums, program, artificial intelligence program, people, information, identifiable information, 21st century, assembles dossiers
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...photographs in a mall. And this about a rail fan being branded a terrorist for trying to film a train. (Note that the member of the train's crew was trying to incite the other passengers to do something about the filmer.) And about this Icelandic woman's experience with U.S. customs because she overstayed a visa in 1995 And lastly, this funny...
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people
 
 
 
 
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MySpace Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs

2008-01-18 23:50:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A backdoor in MySpace's architecture allows anyone who's interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles -- including those under 16 -- despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be seen by people on a user's friends list
 
Tags: myspace, friends list, backdoor, photographs, users, assurances, architecture, people, user
 
 
 
 
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

2008-02-13 05:57:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...photographs and, in some cases, fingerprints - than the IRS database, the Social Security database, or state birth certificate databases. As such, they are an invaluable police tool - for investigating crimes, tracking down suspects, and proving guilt Removing the 8 million-15 million illegal immigrants from these databases would only make...