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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ubiquitous surveillance, you'll know all about me, but I will also know all about you. The government will be watching us, but we'll also be watching the government. This is different than before, but it's not automatically worse. And because I know your secrets, you can't use my secrets as a weapon against me This might not be everybody's...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...ubiquitous USB drives littering the basement of your desk Learn more about Rights Management Services: http://www.microsoft.com/rms Data security One definition of news is something that happens rarely. Data breaches must no longer be news, then, because they seem to happen with increasing regularity. The best way to avoid a breach is not to...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...ubiquitous than the electronic credit card machine The problem is that the authenticator itself may be in the possession of the attacker (Perhaps after you authenticate your legitimate purchase the clerk desires to use your identity herself). In the history of security controls, when the attacker has unsupervised at-will physical access, the...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics
 
 
 
 
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Charting a Landscape with Wi-Fi Signals

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2008-04-14 13:55:30 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...ubiquitous spread of nodes. One area "that's relatively underpopulated is a whole warehouse district," he said, and they had lots of access points In the least-covered areas of the city, about seven access points were "visible"; in some places, that number was as high as 43 access points Also interesting to note was that security was most...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi geographies, gather live data, gather, data, wi-fi cloud, data sets, time, space-time topography
 
 
 
 
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Corpus Christi Cuts EarthLink's Cord

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2008-04-14 15:46:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...ubiquitous public access Wi-Fi, however. It would focus on nine areas of free service currently in place, which could expand in the future; municipal uses would continue EarthLink would avoid paying $1.59m remaining in its contract, but the city would get improvements that total $1.76m, as well as $830,000 in additional equipment that were...
 
Tags: support municipal purposes, municipal purposes, earthlink, municipal, municipal networks based, corpus christi, network, wi-fi network, city council
 
 
 
 
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Comparing Cybersecurity to Early 1800s Security on the High Seas

2008-04-16 14:27:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ubiquitous availability of powerful computing systems, along with the proliferation of high-speed networks, have converged to create a new version of the high seas--the cyber seas. The Internet has the potential to significantly impact the United States' position as a world leader. Nevertheless, for the last decade, U.S. cybersecurity policy...
 
Tags: seas, policy, cybersecurity policy, cyber seas, consistent policy, seas piracy, sporadic policy statements, actions, piracy
 
 
 
 
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The Hidden Difficulties of Watching and Rebuilding Networks

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Network protection can be difficult even for experienced IT staff and security researchers. In this installment of Secure Systems, the authors focus on two areas of network defense that are particularly troublesome to manage: network intrusion recovery and ubiquitous network monitoring
 
Tags: network intrusion recovery, ubiquitous network, network defense, authors focus, secure systems, network protection, security researchers, staff, installment
 
 
 
 
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Information Security Reading List

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2008-05-16 17:12:39 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...ubiquitous, but the best quote on why this work matters comes from Chris Ceppi he said to me that he thinks this book does a better job at explaining federated identity than any technical work. I agree 3. Pentagon's New Map and Blueprint for Action by Thomas Barnett - these two books are absolutely critical to understanding 21st century...
 
Tags: information security, security, information security books, books, web app security, information security literature, 21st century security, cyber security czar, software security
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Workshop - Papers Released

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2008-05-26 08:23:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Ubiquitous Web Services Privacy Preserving History Mining for Web Browsers Towards Privacy Propagation in the Social Web Information is not free, it just wants to be free
 
Tags: privacy, workshop, privacy protection, privacy propagation, social networks, social, w2sp workshop held, social web, ubiquitous web services
 
 
 
 
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Malware Attack Exploiting Flash Zero Day Vulnerability

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