Interesting work and something that I can’t seem to get many people to pay attention to. Not all DoS attacks are bandwidth exhaustion attacks. DoS attacks can be thought of generically as resource exhaustion or suppression attacks. This does not necessarily require using a large amount of bandwidth.

William Raspberry from the Washington post asks a great question:

MCI gets $500 million to build a new GSM network in Iraq. There are a couple of interesting aspects to this:

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Juxtaposition has rocketed to the top of the Google search results for the word ‘juxtaposition’! Strange, given that Juxtaposition is nary a few months old.

The paper is 81 pages long but based on the abstract, it appears like important work. I hope that this will be taken to heart by policy shapers.

Article on the restrictions imposed by the DRM inherent in Apple’s AAC file format.

This scares me as a security professional. This especially scares me as a resident of Washington State.

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A post to the IP and Risks lists is a harbinger of things to come as more and more complexity and computer-controlled systems get added to everyday devices without ensuring the same kind of quality and safety engineering. We can only hope that Ford and other car companies will not be successful in overturning laws requiring mechanical connections for safety-critical systems like steering, braking, etc.