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An excellent idea:
311 for encryption. RSA, DSA, and ECDSA must be 3.4 ounces (100bits) or less per container; must be in 1 quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag; 1 bag per message placed in screening bin. The bag limits the total data volume each traveling message can bring.
Pretty impressive surveillance-economy satire.
EDITED TO ADD (1/14): MIT has a $4M grant to study sewage in aggregate.
Someone wrote Sherlock-Schneier fan fiction. Not slash, thank heavens. (And no, that’s not an invitation.)
Funny, and the inspiration for this week’s headlines. (Note that the image shows Password Safe on the screen.)
And marginally related, here’s an odd essay about using a password as a mantra for personal change.
Okay, it’s a parody:
The Russian Federation is more complex. At a political level there’s a lot of grandstanding. Operationally though, we share intelligence with Russia on anyone who is a mutual target (and that, ironically, includes most of the Russian Federation). China is our main mutual target because it refuses to share the economic intelligence data it gathers about either Russia or America. All of us, however, have agreed to share intelligence data on the French.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.