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Back in May, I attended the EastWest Institute’s First Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas. I only had eight minutes to speak, and tried to turn the dialog to security, privacy, and the individual.
EDITED TO ADD (9/1): Commentary.
Carly Fiorina wants to scare Californians into voting for her.
Yes, terrorists kill—about as often as home appliances.
EDITED TO ADD (6/12): PolitiFact breaks down the ad. And we need to fear demon sheep (the best part starts around 2:20).
LIGATT Security certainly hopes to scare people.
Mike Mimoso interviewed me at the RSA Conference last month.
Last month at the RSA Conference, I gave a talk titled “Security, Privacy, and the Generation Gap.” It was pretty good, but it was the first time I gave that talk in front of a large audience—and its newness showed.
Last week, I gave the same talk again, at the CACR Higher Education Security Summit at Indiana University. It was much, much better the second time around, and there’s a video available.
This would worry me, if the liquid ban weren’t already useless.
The reporter found the security flaw in the airport’s duty-free shopping system. At Schiphol airport, passengers flying to countries outside the Schengan Agreement Area can buy bottles of alcohol at duty-free shops before going through security. They are then permitted to take these bottles onto flights, provided that they have the bottles sealed at the shop.
Mr Stegeman bought a bottle, emptied it and refilled it with another liquid. After that he returned to the same shop and ‘bought’ the refilled bottle again. The shop sealed the bottle in a bag, allowing him to take it with him through security and onto a London-bound flight. In London, he transferred planes and carried the bottle onto a flight to Washington DC.
The flaw, of course, is the assumption that bottles bought at a duty-free shop actually come from the duty-free shop.
But note that 1) it’s the same airport as underwear bomber, 2) reporter is known for trying to defeat airport security, and 3) body scanners would have made no difference.
Watch the TV program here.
Funny video by Marcus Ranum and Gunnar Peterson.
Interesting blog post, with video demonstration, about an improved tool to open high security locks with a key that will just “form itself” if you insert it into the lock and wiggle it a little. The basic technique is a few years old, but the improvements discussed here allow the tool to open a wider variety of locks than before.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.