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• Airline Insecurity Anew

  13 Aug 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  Crooks and Liars � Aviation Critic Michael Boyd on our Airport Security

• Opposition To Nominated Us Chief Privacy Officer

  10 Aug 2006 • 1 min read • politics Privacy post

  I’m so tired of seeing privacy officers and council members who are lawyers first. They may understand the law, but they often don’t understand privacy. And lawyers tend to not consider …

• Latest Airline Quot Security Quot Hysteria

  10 Aug 2006 • 2 min read • security post

  Educated Guesswork: Threat modelling airplane explosive detection A good analysis of why the threat model of materials in checked luggage may be sufficiently different than carry-on that would need to …

• Illogicacy

  8 Aug 2006 • 1 min read • Science post

  Atheist Ethicist: Well Founded Beliefs Great treatise on how the inability for people to properly reason (I called it Illogicacy here after Innumeracy) leads them to make terrible mistakes that result …

• Diy Raid 5 Nas

  1 Aug 2006 • 1 min read • technology post

  Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS | Tom’s Networking I’m going to need to get one of those cards and a bunch of drives to augment my data server with a terabyte of RAID-5 goodness. *yum*

• Desalinate Water While Ascending Your Space Elevator

  1 Aug 2006 • 1 min read • Science post

  Technology Review: Cheap Drinking Water from the Ocean A water desalination system using carbon nanotube-based membranes could significantly reduce the cost of purifying water from the ocean. The …

• Diebold A Danger To America

  31 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • security politics post

  The Open Voting Foundation “This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines,” says Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert. Upon examining the inner workings of …

• Rfid No Good For Vehicle Security

  31 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  Wired 14.08: Pinch My Ride Alternate attack vectors mean that RFID is often not the part of the security system that gets broken (not unlike strong crypto). All of the supporting systems around it are …

• Mccain List Of Reversals

  29 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • politics post

  The Carpetbagger Report : Blog Archive : Moving forward with McCain-Feingold — without McCain You know, there was a time when I thought McCain was a straight-shooter. Now, he’s no different than …

• Bypass Compulsory Registration

  29 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • Privacy post

  Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration What a great idea.