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What Our Top Spy Doesn't Get: Security and Privacy Aren't Opposites

tbuitenh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:48:56 -0500

Bruce Schneier explains security and privacy are the same. Very insightful.

Consumer-control industry and their security damnation

libervisco — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:40:30 -0400

As Apple's Steve Jobs is announcing that they suddenly "want native third-party applications on the iPhone", something its users have been yearning to have ever since they started buying these phones (even if it meant hacking them), Steve justifies their prior resistance to this kind of openness by security threats. As he says, they are "trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once â€” provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc."

"Im In Your Leenucks Box Changing Your Password" (funny)

libervisco — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:21:07 -0400

This is just a hilariously funny story apparently from "Scrap" a SecurityMonkey, if I got that right. Looks like you can find more of them here.

A Security Market for Lemons

tbuitenh — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:14:36 -0400

Why are there so many crappy security products for sale?

It's interesting to apply the same principles to the software market in general.

How to hide an entire filesystem

tbuitenh — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:34:02 -0400

Overview of cryptographic filesystems, some of which have the plausible deniability feature (meaning it cannot be proven the encrypted data exists at all).

Foil Wireless Poachers and Have Fun Doing It

tbuitenh — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:15:12 -0500

A tutorial explaining how to find freeloaders on your wireless network, and how to annoy them and/or kick them off your network.

Of course enabling encryption on your wireless net is a better idea, but the described tools will be useful in other situations too.

Be sure to also read part 1