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Acm Joins Opposition To Tia
o-tia There is a story in this month’s ACM MemberNet publication on the ACM’s opposition to Total Information Awareness (TIA). This isn’t exactly news, because the ADM letter was …
Santa Clara County More Clueless Electronic Ballot Junkies
Santa Clara County faces key decision on electronic ballots “The future of electronic voting may be rewritten this week in Santa Clara County, where county leaders are weighing warnings that the …
Study shows Linux defect rate much better than commercial Unix
A study of TCP/IP code of various commercial and open source operating systems found that the defect rate in the Linux implementation was much better than others studied. “The Linux defect rate …
Scuba Diving Computer Recall
From RISKS 25.57. I have friends who dive and hope to get certified myself soon so this is of particular concern. Date: 17 Feb 2003 05:35:20 -0800 From: tom.race@skipton.co.uk (Tom Race) Subject: …
Someone compromised 1% of all visa and mastercard account numbers
A 2-17-2003 very short Reuters story reports that Over 5 million Visa/MasterCard accounts hacked into “More than five million Visa and MasterCard accounts throughout the nation were accessed …
Orange Alert Status Terror For Students
From RISKS 22.56 “Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:46:37 -0500 From: “Rebecca Mercuri” Subject: Risks of Doing Homework At the faculty meeting at Bryn Mawr College on 12 Feb 2003, we were …
Not Only N Korea Can Have Nukes
A Wired article describes an unbelievable story of reporter Noah Shachtman trivially breaching the physical security at none-other-than Los Alamos National Laboratory described as “the …
Mobile Mp3 Quandary
What to buy… For my birthday, I’m looking to buy myself a digital music jukebox player/recorder. There are plenty of options, but none of which meet all of my requirements. I’m …
New Ssl Active Mitm Attack
" In a paper researchers at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory of Swiss University (Lasec) EPFL demonstrate a timing-based attack on CBC cipher suites in SSL and TLS. The attack assumes …
Citibank Trying To Silence Atm Pin Security Research
Citibank is trying to prevent the disclosure of new scientific research that has apparently broken ATM PIN confidentiality protection wide-open. This is even in the face of “phantom” …