Tag: security
member name: Will Evans
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May 16, 2006 08:03 PM EDT --
I always knew that CNN drifted over the double yellow line some of the time, but it seems they have sunk to a new low. Newsflash - having a gaggle of conservative republicans and moderately conservative . . .
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June 09, 2006 02:10 PM EDT --
"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:42 AM EDT --
A number of media figures, and comments posted to my previous post, have suggested that the NSA data collection program could have prevented the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had it been in place . . .
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April 13, 2006 08:36 PM EDT --
So if you don't know all the cool ways to use Google to find out interesting things, a quick example. Say, because I am a geek, and want to know how many C++ files are readily available for view on . . .
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May 16, 2006 05:12 AM EDT --
Well, Bush unveiled his Bold, New Border Security Plan.
Security theater is the carrying out of actions which are designed to look as if they improve security whilst at the same time there is little improvement, . . .
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July 12, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
We already know why NSA-style wholesale surveillance data-mining systems are useless for finding terrorists due mostly to the fact that, if you want to find a needle in a haystack, you don't add more . . .
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April 14, 2006 11:57 AM EDT --
Related to: Whisle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
From EFF Lawsuit
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From: InternetNews.com
April 14, 2006
AT&T's Good Name?
By Roy Mark
It's beginning to look as if one of the first returns . . .
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May 13, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
Update:
Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root . . .
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March 21, 2006 04:07 PM EST --
Really interesting article by Robert X. Cringley on the lack of federal funding for security technologies.
Since the attack on the Towers, the United States threw its considerable fortune (ability to . . .
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May 12, 2006 05:31 AM EDT --
This is really disturbing...
New security glitch found in Diebold system
Officials say machines have 'dangerous' holes
Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and limit . . .
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June 04, 2006 09:26 AM EDT --
You can audit "Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography." It was taught at the University of Washington, Winter 2006, by Josh Benaloh, Brian LaMacchia, and John Manderdelli. The course materials . . .
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May 13, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
I haven't decided whether this is funny or ironic or scary, or all three combined in some sick twist of fate. I was just wrapping up my previous post on the NSA, and this email arrived from a recruiter. . . .
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May 22, 2006 06:05 AM EDT --
Zfone, a free software program initially for MAC and Unix, but recently released for Windows, encrypts a computer-to- computer voice conversation so both you can be confident that no one is listening . . .
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May 14, 2006 05:30 PM EDT --
Continued from my previous post on this topic.
" It is like the nuclear bomb for e-voting systems. It's the deal breaker. It really makes the security flaws that we found (in prior years) look . . .
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May 12, 2006 08:49 AM EDT --
Part III, an update to the last post on this topic.
USA Today reported Thursday that the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting records of the phone calls of ordinary Americans.
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May 23, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
In a previous post, I wrote briefly about Zfone and Skype, two ways of securing your VOIP phone conversations.
Tip O' The Black Hat to MatW who sent me a link to OhGizmo! 's review of the . . .
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May 18, 2006 05:09 AM EDT --
Update:
"Ordinarily, a company that conceals their transactions and activities from the public would violate securities law," ThinkProgess notes. "But an presidential memorandum signed . . .
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