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Speeding Tickets and Agenda

2008-03-28 13:42:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
If you ever need an example to demonstrate that security is a function of agenda, use this story about speed cameras. Cities that have installed speed cameras are discovering motorists are driving slower, which is decreasing revenues from fines. So they're turning the cameras off Perhaps a better solution would be to raise the fines to the...
 
Tags: speed cameras, cameras, lost revenue, fines, agenda, story, function, speeders, raise
 
 
 
 
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Speed Cameras Record Every Car

2008-07-23 05:32:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
In this article about British speed cameras, and a trick to avoid them that does not work, is this sentence: As vehicles pass between the entry and exit camera points their number plates are digitally recorded, whether speeding or not. Without knowing more, I can guarantee that those records are kept forever
 
Tags: british speed cameras, vehicles pass, exit camera, sentence, entry, records, avoid, trick, guarantee
 
 
 
 
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Speeding up WiFi Hacking with Hardware Accelerators

2008-10-14 06:25:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Elcomsoft is claiming that the WPA protocol is dead, just because they can speed up brute-force cracking by 100 times using a hardware accelerator. Why exactly is this news? Yes, weak passwords are weak -- we already know that . And strong WPA passwords are still strong. This seems like yet another blatent attempt to grab some press attention...
 
Tags: strong wpa passwords, strong, weak, weak passwords, cryptanalytic result, press attention, hardware accelerator, blatent attempt, wpa protocol
 
 
 
 
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RIAA Lawsuits May Be Unconstitutional

2008-11-19 13:33:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Harvard law professor Charles Nesson is arguing , in court, that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is unconstitutional: He makes the argument that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is very much unconstitutional, in that its hefty fines for copyright infringement...
 
Tags: digital theft deterrence, fines, deterrence, hefty fines, theft, criminal statute, statute, objective judicial body, body
 
 
 
 
 
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