Post
How To Break A Common Master Combination Lock
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 …
Airport Security Oversights From The Onion
This was the most troubling one: Airport Security Oversights | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source Sept. 3, London to New York: A few Muslim people may have slipped through with their …
Encrypted Government Announcements
U.S. Cryptographers: ‘FrpX-K5jE-Oc4n-e5Dn’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source WASHINGTON, DC—In a carefully phrased, 128-bit encoded announcement that has challenged U.S. …
Fashion Advice For Geeks
So, there happen to be these unwritten rules of style that change all the time that nobody seems to tell you about and it’s hard to ask and for many, harder to know you should ask. And there are …
Rfidiots Mandating Insecure Rfid Passports
Nice proof of concept code that can read passport data posted to BUGTRAQ. The “key” is comprised of data on the passport itself so you can remotely decrypt someone’s data only if you …
Patents Are Bad For Society
James A. Donald had a great rant to the Anti-Fraud mailing list about how patents just don’t work, at least for their intended purpose of furthering public knowledge. The theoretical …
Competitive Information For Picking An Antivirus Solution
This is an article from a year ago that showed how each vendor was able to respond to key virus outbreaks. They also show the data from the previous year. I personally recommend F-Secure’s …
Four Challenges For Computer Security Research
I would add a 5th item: 5. Develop Reusable Security Architectures that cover common scenarios and include appropriate protection by design Tools are sexy; secure design is hard. That’s why you …
Dmca Still Stands But Now With Some Exemptions
It’s still a shitty law though. Something else I will happily ignore to avoid my fair use rights being infringed. Again, how could I watch DVDs (legally rented/owned) on my Linux box without …
YouTube shutting down ability to download videos from YouTube
07:00 Hey, I’m on a Linux computer and because they insist on requiring Flash to play the videos, the only way I can view them is to download them and watch them with Xine. I plan on violating …