Security
Notable Security Quote Insane Probabilities
Yes, of course an infinite number of texts hash to the same value; that’s the way the function works. But the odds of it happening naturally are less than the odds of all the air molecules …
Clearwire Secure Clear As Mud In Their Own Words
I got an advertisement for Clearwire wireless broadband to my house that had a terrible Q & A about security: Q: How secure is the connection? Is it more secure than Wi-Fi? A: Your Clearwire …
Slashdot | Possible Serious Security
Slashdot | Possible Serious Security Flaw In ATMs
Nist Blasts Paperless Electronic Voting
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a paper condemning paperless electronic voting machines as insecurable. I’ll have to read the paper in-depth to see …
Cia Kryptos Sculpture Has A Typo
It's not really a typo but an intentionally left-out X separator for aesthetics on the sculpture that was intended to result in gibberish when decrypted that would clue in the decryptors to …
Upgrade IE ASAP
A study from a year ago but just as valid today. Actually, over the past year, IE got much worse. There were many exploits and unpatched holes in the browser. One of the best things you can do for …
Department Of Homeland Pork
Get this: The list of top terrorist targets from the Department of Homeland Security is seriously braindead. It includes 1,305 casinos, 234 restaurants, an ice cream parlor, a tackle shop, a flea …
How To Break A Common Master Combination Lock
Here’s a description of how to open a common Master brand lock in about 10 minutes. The design makes the 40^3 possible combinations collapse to 121. It’s a physical metaphor for bad …
Airport Security Oversights From The Onion
This was the most troubling one: Airport Security Oversights | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source Sept. 3, London to New York: A few Muslim people may have slipped through with their …
Encrypted Government Announcements
U.S. Cryptographers: ‘FrpX-K5jE-Oc4n-e5Dn’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source WASHINGTON, DC—In a carefully phrased, 128-bit encoded announcement that has challenged U.S. …