Articles tagged as "security"

I got an advertisement for Clearwire wireless broadband to my house that had a terrible Q & A about security:

Slashdot | Possible Serious Security Flaw In ATMs

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a paper condemning paperless electronic voting machines as insecurable.  I’ll have to read the paper in-depth to see how they came to that strong of a conclusion, but I do know that there is no research showing that a purely electronic system can be completely trustworthy.

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A study from a year ago but just as valid today.  Actually, over the past year, IE got much worse.  There were many exploits and unpatched holes in the browser.

Get this:  The list of top terrorist targets from the Department of Homeland Security is seriously braindead.  It includes 1,305 casinos, 234 restaurants, an ice cream parlor, a tackle shop, a flea market, and an Amish popcorn factory  3,650 sites total.  What’s going on?  Pork-barrel politics is what’s going on.  We’re never going to get security right if we continue to make it a parody of itself.

Here’s a description of how to open a common Master brand lock in about 10 minutes.  The design makes the 40^3 possible combinations collapse to 121.  It’s a physical metaphor for bad cryptography and reliance on obscurity.

This was the most troubling one:

U.S. Cryptographers: ‘FrpX-K5jE-Oc4n-e5Dn’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source