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Ev Certs Used Against Us
I happened to notice this in my Spam bucket. Funny to see the phishers adapting to the trend of increased use of EV certs and the fact that customers are rightly ignorant of what EV certs actually are …
Lou Dobbs Global Warming Denier
Hat tip to FAIR’s Counterspin for covering this last week. I hadn’t heard it discussed yet. What hubris!! To think that you somehow know more than the consensus of scientific opinion? …
Browser Security Policies Documented And Compared
I have often wondered about this kind of thing. Browsers implement all kinds of “policies” that are largely implemented as undocumented logic in code – probably in response to a …
Dangers Of Instant Runoff Voting
Several recent editions of RISKS discuss some evidence of the dangers of IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) systems. Which is a shame since I hoped that they would offer a better approach that could help …
Constitutional Challenge To Fisa Immunity Law Go Eff Go-
In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms | Threat Level from Wired.com “Is there any precedent for this type of enactment that is analogous in all of these respects: …
Iphone Being Closed Makes It Less Secure
I was thinking recently about developers wanting to be able to exploit future bugs in systems like the iPhone (and even in windows media player and the like) to gain access to locked content, features …
Movie Plot Comes True
Funny, especially in light of watching the season premiere of “24” where Jack shoots out a video camera, which draws the people out to check on it, leaving them vulnerable to attack. Add …
Ripped From Informercials Spam
So, I’m listening to this story on NPR yesterday and the CEO of the company that brings you the Sham-Wow, Pedi-Paws, Ped Egg, and other cruft for $19.95 was on. I rarely watch commercials …
Md5 Demonstrated Very Broken But Worse Some Cas Were Still Using It
Now, a proof-of-concept showing that the long-known MD5 vulnerabilities can be actually used to fake a CA certificate. This could be really bad if done by a bad guy. And it has long been known that to …
Bpa Safety In Plastics For Your Baby
I’ve heard lots of information about BPA in plastics (aka Bisphenol-A), and a little misinformation. So I figured that it was time to crosscheck these concerns against the other …