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February 09 2010
“— Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff - did ANYBODY have ANY DOUBT that this would happen?Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.
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February 07 2010
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
How lame, we already have that. When it comes to destroying Internet freedom, Italy is always a step ahead.“ But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future ”— Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com
“— Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Government needs to define cyber warIn so many words, Blair's testimony highlighted a question the intelligence community, the Defense Department, the White House and Congress have to answer: When is a cyber attack an act of war?
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February 04 2010
“— Italy preparing to hold YouTube, others liable for uploadsThe Italian government has already gone after Google in a highly public fashion, suing several top executives over a YouTube video that showed classmates abusing a student with Down's Syndrome. In that case, the argument was that Google had a duty to screen such material and keep it from appearing on the site—a claim that Google and others have always said would make user-generated content sites almost impossible to run.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Italian government now plans to take this principle much further. Sites that allow video uploads would be responsible both for copyrighted content posted by users and for libelous material in uploaded videos. Such sites would also need government licenses to operate, potentially giving the government more power over their operations.
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February 01 2010
“— Britain warns businesses of Chinese 'honey trap'The so-called "honey trap" methods were aimed at business executives at trade shows and exhibitions and involved offers of "lavish hospitality and flattery," according to an article in The Sunday Times. The New York Times quickly confirmed the report. The effort also involved the giving of digital cameras and memory sticks designed to surreptitiously install malware on users' PCs.
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“ But I don’t want to live in a world where you have to break into your own computer before you can start tinkering. And I certainly don’t want to live in a world where tinkering with your own computer is illegal. ”— Tinkerer’s Sunset [dive into mark]
“ As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing. And that makes anything as complex or as messy as healthcare reform a very hard sell. ”— BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests?
January 29 2010
Panopticlick
This nice EFF tool shows you how measurable and trackable you are, regardless of the much blamed cookies.Basically, your browser configuration can be fingerprinted to uniquely identify you.
This is also used, btw, in fraud detection systems (such as this one).
La legge 48/2008 spiegata con chiarezza
A post for my Italian friends only, sorry :-)Il Maggiore Marco Mattiucci del RACIS svolge da anni una benemerita attività pubblicistica sul suo sito web. Segnalo questo articolo perché di particolare interesse!
Voice encryption for mobile phones cracked: 12 out of 15 methods deemed insecure
Be always vigilant, snake oil is always abundant...January 27 2010
“ Computer scientists in Britain have uncovered weaknesses in electronic passports issued by the US, UK, and some 50 other countries that allow attackers to trace the movements of individuals as they enter or exit buildings. ”— Defects in e-passports allow real-time tracking - which is exactly what I predicted along with Luca Carettoni in 2007 (and along with just about every other security researcher in the world, actually)
January 25 2010
“ As I keep saying, everything is obvious in hindsight. After the fact, it's easy to point to the bits of evidence and claim that someone should have "connected the dots." But before the fact, when there are millions of dots -- some important but the vast majority unimportant -- uncovering plots is a lot harder. ”— Schneier on why seemingly simple things are amazingly hard, actually
January 24 2010
January 23 2010
January 22 2010
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...
