Security

• At Amp T Usurps Customer Records

  9 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • freedom security Privacy post

  Time to switch your phone company. AT&T rewrote its privacy policy to basically say that your data is theirs and they will do what they please. Some legal manoevering to allow them to continue to …

• Identity Theft Still The Victim'S Problem

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  NPR 12-5-2002, All things considered 4pm. “businesses are so interested in extending credit…” they just write off the losses. ID theft has not hit businesses economically yet, since …

• The Iraq hoax that just won't die

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Iraqi Cyberwar: an Ageless Joke This is an OLD story so I hope that it is dead by now. But perfect example of the lack of fact-checking that goes on so much in the …

• Artists And Consumers Get Screwed By The Music Industry

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • technology freedom Music security Civil Liberties post

  Passionate condemnation of the music industry: [IP] MUST READ Courtney Love does the math The controversial singertak [IP] last on this topic – Does File Trading Fund Terrorism? Successful …

• Visa prohibits display of card numbers on receipts

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  [IP] I will start using my Visa card more Wow this blog entry is old. But remember when every receipt had the full card number on it? And remember when Starbucks would mask out everything _except_ the …

• Tales from the RFID Hacking Underground

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  Wired 14.05: The RFID Hacking Underground Follow-along to the article on building your own RFID skimmer

• More Black Marks For Dhs

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security politics post

  Think Progress: Homeland Insecurity.

• Have You Taken Your Security Pills

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • observations security post

  The other day, I made what I think is a very apt analogy comparing the security product industry to the diet and herbal supplement industry. Both operate with little to no oversight or regulation …

• Cracking Java Byte Code Encryption

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security post

  Cracking Java byte-code encryption Why Java obfuscation schemes based on byte-code encryption won’t work.

• Nsa Surveillance Only The Tip Of The Iceberg

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security politics Privacy Civil Liberties post

  A gaggle of links about the illegal NSA domestic spying program. More apropos in light of even more spying by the Bush Administration – this time on international wire transfers Think Progress: …