Written almost 2 years ago, very poignant today. But what about Poland? Ugh. BW Online | March 24, 2003 | Commentary: The High Price of Bad Diplomacy The U.S. has already lost the prewar battle over …

ActForChange Petition: Stop the Florida-tion of the 2004 election “Today, there is a new and real threat to voters, this time coming from touchscreen voting machines with no paper trails and the …

Interesting paper on how to use memory errors to attack a virtual computer. The attack exploits the fact that a “time of compilation” check is not necessarily valid at “time of …

Monthly reports on security and non security-related items, such as analyzing SSL webserver usage, apache module usage. Very interesting. I like to see Apache having almost 80% of the market share now …

“99% of SSL users have no idea how SSL works and consequently make informed decisions” Browser manufacturers try to make things easy for users but end up diluting the security properties …

A great (old) post to Risks 22.74 about the past issues with designing solutions to buffer overflows in hardware. Also, a link to a paper describing the history of these efforts that I’ll be …

I still run into people who believe that PKI is a viable end-user authentication solution for the masses. My favorite were the systems that tried to solve the certificate portability problem by …

And now candidates are crying “security” to win elections… It works on both sides apparently. -J WSJ.com - Companies Cry ‘Security’ to Get A Break From the Government In …

An update to this story: As of Sept 2004, a heavily-redacted report was released that reportedly found fault with some of the RCMP’s handling of the case, but, according to the CBC timeline, …

Catching up on draft postings, this is one that is very timely today, although it was originally penned over a year ago. -J Message: 6 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:26:14 -0800 From: “Rob, grandpa …