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Who's fault is ID theft and financial fraud? Ask your bank.
Repeat after me: Identifiers are not Authenticators. SSN: Identifies you, does not prove your identity. This is a claimed identity on its own. Credit/debit Card Number: Identifies your credit card …
Several stories that prove the world is going crazy
First out of the gate: Fedex sued a loyal customer for posting photos of furniture he made for himself out of Fedex boxes on the web. Get this, they used many…er…novel…legal …
Using threat modeling featured in new OWASP WAPT
This will be something to look forward to. I have not seen much of the theory of threat modeling end-to-end put into practice effectively or completely. And much of what I have seen of threat modeling …
ZDNet's "apology" to Google
Gotta love brit humor! This is great tongue-in-cheek commentary at its best. The background: News.com UK published details about Google’s CEO using public information found on…Google (aka …
25 And A Bit More Green For An X509 Certificate
That sounds like quite a deal actually. Verisign still charges an exhorbitant amount of money for bits that do the same thing. -Jason From Peter Gutman to the Cryptography Mailing list Subject: How …
Homeland Security Getting Smarter Or Staying Stupid
Getting smarter: Chertoff is a good guy. When I heard this NPR interview I remember thinking, holy crap, someone who gets it. Security is about tradeoffs and with limited resources, making the most …
Favorite Words That Probably Arent Words
Sheeple Irritainment Adminisphere To go along with other new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary You can have lots of fun at Unwords
Drooling Over My 7mbps 892 Kbps Dsl Upgrade
broadband Speed Interpretation Just upgraded from 1.5mbps / 768kbps to 7mbps / 892kbps. Yum. 2005-07-19 21:32:27 EST: 4427 / 719 Your download speed : 4533441 bps, or 4427 kbps. A 553.3 KB/sec …
Rick Santorum Blame The Victims Of Clergy Sex Abuse
SANTORUM ALSO BLAMES THE VICTIMS OF CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE - Santorum Exposed: The Blog This is an utterly disgusting rationalization.
Non English Internet Domain Names Likely Delayed Due To Phishing Concerns
Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed - Yahoo! News Social engineering attacks using similar characters to trick users are called homograph, or semantic attacks Also see this article on IDN …