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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. Friday Squid Blogging: CipherlopodsThis makes no sense to me, even though -- I suppose -- it's a squid cryptography joke. Posted on March 12, 2010 at 4:21 PM • 12 Comments Another Schneier InterviewThis one on simple-talk.com. Posted on March 12, 2010 at 1:19 PM • 1 Comments Why DRM Doesn't WorkFunny comic. Posted on March 12, 2010 at 11:31 AM • 22 Comments More Hollow CoinsA hollowed-out U.S. nickel can hold a microSD card. Pound and euro coins are also available. I blogged about this about a year ago as well. Posted on March 12, 2010 at 6:58 AM • 34 Comments Wikibooks Cryptography TextbookOver at Wikibooks, they're trying to write an open source cryptography textbook. Posted on March 11, 2010 at 12:26 PM • 22 Comments Wanted: Trust DetectorIt's good to dream: IARPA's five-year plan aims to design experiments that can measure trust with high certainty -- a tricky proposition for a psychological study. Developing such experimental protocols could prove very useful for assessing levels of trust within one-on-one talks, or even during group interactions. IARPA is the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the U.S. intelligence community's answer to DARPA. Posted on March 11, 2010 at 6:17 AM • 38 Comments Nose BiometricsSince they are hard to conceal, the study says, noses would work well for identification in covert surveillance. Posted on March 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM • 39 Comments The Limits of Identity CardsGood legal paper on the limits of identity cards: Stephen Mason and Nick Bohm, "Identity and its Verification," in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number 1, Jan 2010. Those faced with the problem of how to verify a person's identity would be well advised to ask themselves the question, 'Identity with what?' An enquirer equipped with the answer to this question is in a position to tackle, on a rational basis, the task of deciding what evidence will be useful for the purpose. Without the answer to the question, the verification of identity becomes a sadly familiar exercise in blind compliance with arbitrary rules. Posted on March 10, 2010 at 7:09 AM • 51 Comments Marc Rotenberg on Google's Italian Privacy CaseInteresting commentary: I don't think this is really a case about ISP liability at all. It is a case about the use of a person's image, without their consent, that generates commercial value for someone else. That is the essence of the Italian law at issue in this case. It is also how the right of privacy was first established in the United States. The whole thing is worth reading. Posted on March 9, 2010 at 12:36 PM • 23 Comments Guide to Microsoft Police Forensic ServicesThe "Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (U.S. Domestic Version)" (also can be found here, here, and here) outlines exactly what Microsoft will do upon police request. Here's a good summary of what's in it: The Global Criminal Compliance Handbook is a quasi-comprehensive explanatory document meant for law enforcement officials seeking access to Microsoft's stored user information. It also provides sample language for subpoenas and diagrams on how to understand server logs. When it was first leaked, Microsoft tried to scrub it from the Internet. But they quickly realized that it was futile and relented. Posted on March 9, 2010 at 6:59 AM • 10 Comments Google in The OnionMOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Responding to recent public outcries over its handling of private data, search giant Google offered a wide-ranging and eerily well-informed apology to its millions of users Monday. Posted on March 8, 2010 at 2:24 PM • 18 Comments Eating a Flash DriveHow not to destroy evidence: In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents, records show. The article wasn't explicit about this -- odd, as it's the main question any reader would have -- but it seems that the man's digestive tract did not destroy the evidence. Posted on March 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM • 55 Comments
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