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• E Voting Interview Reveals Serious Risks To Election Integrity

  29 May 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  This scares me as a security professional. This especially scares me as a resident of Washington State. Some gems from this interview with representatives from Sequoia systems: Miller: “On the …

• Another Ill Conceived Set Of Tax Refunds

  29 May 2003 • 1 min read • politics post

  1. Companies fraudulently overstate earnings 2. Companies pay tax on those fake earnings 3. Companies get caught, restate earnings 4. Companies want refunds of taxes paid on those earnings 5. …

• Bmw 7 Series Windowsce Crash Traps Driver Inside

  25 May 2003 • 2 min read • security post

  A post to the IP and Risks lists is a harbinger of things to come as more and more complexity and computer-controlled systems get added to everyday devices without ensuring the same kind of quality …

• Making Telemarketers Cry

  25 May 2003 • 1 min read • NoneOfTheAbove post

  A great Telemarketer Suing HOWTO by attorney Mark Eckenwiler from Washington D.C. How To Make A Telemarketer Cry (or, Suing Bozos for Fun & Profit) “In November 2002, a telemarketer called …

• Quot If You Want To Win An Election Just Control The Voting Machines Quot-

  23 May 2003 • 1 min read • security politics Civil Liberties post

  quot- A couple more sites working against all-electronic voting machines: https://www.blackboxvoting.com/ https://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm Also, an article discussing a situation that, if …

• Can Microsoft Be Secure

  23 May 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  I sure hope so. I have high expectations for Windows 2003. We’ll see how things progress. I want to know who the companies are that were surveyed… I assure you mine wasn’t one of …

• Horrible Precedent Guantanamo Detainees Have No Us Legal Recourse

  23 May 2003 • 1 min read • Civil Liberties post

  [IP] Stuart Taylor’s column today –“Falsely Accused ‘Enemies’ Deserve Due Process Couldn’t say it better myself. And regarding those lists of “known or …

• Facial Recognition Systems Quot Improve Quot-

  23 May 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  quot- [IP] NIST rates facial recognition systems “The three top-rated systems verified identities correctly 87 percent to 90 percent of the time with a false-alarm rate of 1 percent. When NIST …

• Handset Security Flaws On The Horizon

  23 May 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  Software quality, especially data input filtering, is critical for mobile devices; especially devices that do not typically have user-updateable software. News: Mobile phone hacking expected to spread …

• Drm Threat Analysis Shows Futility In Drm Mechanisms

  23 May 2003 • 1 min read • security post

  This analysis shows how DRM solutions are ineffective because they [attempt to] address the wrong threat model. “Many DRM advocates make the classic mistake of refusing to choose a threat model. …