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New Scientist -- Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system

'FACEBOOK has released details of the extraordinary security infrastructure it uses to fight off spam and other cyber-scams. Known as the Facebook Immune System (FIS) ... It took just three years for FIS to evolve from basic beginnings into an all-seeing set of algorithms that monitors every photo posted to the network, every status update– indeed, every click made by every one of the 800 million users. There are more than 25 billion of these "read and write actions" every day. At peak activity the system checks 650,000 actions a second. "It's a big challenge," says Jim Larus, a Microsoft researcher in Redmond, Washington, who studies large networks. The only network bigger, Larus suspects, is the web itself. That makes Facebook's defence system one of the largest in existence. The system is overseen by a team of 30 people, but it can learn in real time and is able to take action without checking with a human supervisor.'

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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Bitcoin Forum -- I just got hacked [25K BTC / $500K stolen] - any help is welcome!

'MtGOX has $1k/day, $10k/month cashout limits. He won't get far selling them all on MtGox rapidly.' -- '...encrypting the wallet only solves part of the problem: you must still decrypt it to RAM to use it, and an attacker that has access to your computer can still get it at that moment. Of course that still makes it harder for him to do so. I think we are (sadly) going to see more and more threads like this as time goes by and bitcoin value goes up. The real solution in my mind is to use a special install of an OS, perhaps on a USB key, that you only use to do payments. Even better, we could imagine dedicated bitcoin devices based on ARM or similar, that would run a minimalistic linux and the bitcoin client; with a heavily encrypted wallet.'

bitcoin encryption security from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- TED: Bruce Schneier: The security mirage

'The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. At TEDxPSU, he explains why we spend billions addressing news story risks, like the "security theater" now playing at your local airport, while neglecting more probable risks – and how we can break this pattern.' -- "If it's in the news, don't worry about it."

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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eWeek.com -- Kraken Botnet Infiltration Triggers Ethics Debate

'The ability to infiltrate and seize control of Kraken's C&C mechanism left the company with an ethical dilemma that has prompted a discussion of whether infected computers used in denial-of-service attacks and spam runs should be cleansed without the owners' consent. Amin, arguing that cleansing should be used to help slow the botnet epidemic, said, "We have the ability to successfully redirect infected systems. We have the ability to provide an 'update' through the existing Kraken protocol that can simply remove the Kraken zombie." Andrew Hay said the concept of tampering with a user's machine without consent, even if it's to remove malicious software, is "ethically questionable." "I couldn't in good conscience send any command to a machine without the user's knowledge and approval. Ethically speaking, we just can't make that decision regardless of if it's right or whether it's the best thing to do for the good of the Internet."'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Prey -- Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones

'Basically you install a tiny agent in your PC or phone, which silently waits for a remote signal to wake up and work its magic. This signal is sent either from the Internet or through an SMS message, and allows you to gather information regarding the device's location, hardware and network status, and optionally trigger specific actions on it.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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AnonNews.org -- /dev/null before dishonor

'The idea is to write a how-to on building mesh networks. The n00bs must understand it. Mesh networks are usefull, as they cannot be censored nor shut down. Later on that How-to can become part of Anonymous' uber-secret handbook regarding safety.' -- 'The first section of this article will focus on personal safety. Personal safety can be spoken of in two different spheres: Physical Safety and Internet Safety. It is important to remember that these two spheres overlap: a lapse of internet safety could lead to physical identification. However, by keeping in mind a few important rules you can drastically reduce the chance of being singled out and identified. The second section of this article will go into specifics regarding technology that can be used to communicate anonymously, maintain secrecy, and protest effectively.' -- http://goo.gl/SuY0f

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Electronic Frontier Foundation -- HTTPS Everywhere

'Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Cypherpunk

'A cypherpunk is an activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. As the Cypherpunk Manifesto says "Cypherpunks write code"; the notion that good ideas need to be implemented, not just discussed, is very much part of the culture. John Gilmore, whose site hosted the original cypherpunks mailing list, wrote: "We are literally in a race between our ability to build and deploy technology, and their ability to build and deploy laws and treaties. Neither side is likely to back down or wise up until it has definitively lost the race."'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Ribbonfarm.com -- Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing

'Matt Ridley’s The Red Queen, a book about sexual selection in biology, explains the very compelling theory that sexual reproduction evolved primarily as a defense against parasitism. It turns out that this is the most general sort of defense known. Why? The reason the bad guys are winning the cyberwars is that they have one major advantage: mass production of computing infrastructure. Diversity breeds robustness. Every bit of information that can be used to exploit a system has less leverage. The problem with diversity though, is that the amount of diversity required to stay ahead of the parasites is far higher than the amount of diversity required to actually accomplish whatever the systems are designed to do. In biology and corporate ecosystems, sexual reproduction provides a true offensive weapon to the good guys. What we want is an architectural paradigm that can churn the gene pool of computing design at a controllable rate, independently of advances in functionality.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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SECLISTS -- Full Disclosure: Patriotic botnet with Orange's HADOPI software

'HADOPI is also the secret name of a French program designed to get offensive capacities targeting the Internet. In order to recruit every computer of the country in this patriotic botnet (like in China), the government has urged every citizen to install a software which will prove they do not download music and movies. But the software is in fact a backdoor... The first company helping the government to recruit bots is Orange... #1. Orange provides contents, such as football, tv shows #2. The Government says every citizen must install a software to prove they do not download illegal contents. #3. Orange provides such a software. #4. [TOP SECRET] Every computer where this software is at risk can become a bot for the French government. -- The cult of the dead HADOPI has decided to disclose this plot to the public.'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Stowe Boyd -- Don't Be Afraid Of Foursquare, But We Need Circles Of Trust

'Consider a young woman, Chloe, who has a close set of confidants – say 15 friends, both male and female – to whom she is extremely close. She also is part of a larger scene of 100 people or people that she sees frequently, but knows less well. And she may part of a even larger sphere ... Imagine if her geolocational information was propagated in correspondingly less detail as her Foursquare posts moved outward through these circles of trust. Her inner circle might see exactly where she is -- a certain corner of a certain bar -- and also might receive that information in real-time. Her 100 or so good friends might learn that she is in the Meatpacking district, or Nolita, but specifics would be blurred. So if one of that 100 had been invited to the same party they might be able to infer that Chloe was there, too. But they would have to directly ask her to get confirmation, and she could simply opt not to respond. And that information might be delayed by 15 minutes or 30 minutes, also.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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LogMeIn - Virtual Networking with LogMeIn Hamachi²

'Connect multiple users and computers together on a secure, private network, regardless of location, over the public Internet.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Remobo - Instant Private Network ™ Application

'Remobo creates an Instant Private Network ™ (IPN) between users. It's like a computer network for your social network.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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MacHacks.TV -- Free Mac OS X Security Manual

'MacHacks.TV has put together this security and privacy manual pdf for OS X. Although written for Tiger the majority of its content is relevant to Leopard too.' -- Also grab a rootkit scanner: search: How to check your Mac for Rootkits

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid
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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- Steve Rambam: Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It

'Emphasis will be placed on discussing the "digital footprints" that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person's likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person's actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Switching To Mac -- How to check your Mac for Rootkits

Comment: Rob: "Better is to install macports, then install checkrootkit from the command line: sudo port install chkrootkit -- which gives the same program, but then from a source known."

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Bruce Schneier -- The Eternal Value of Privacy

"If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" -- ...if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or in the uncertain future -- patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable. -- Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. ...we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Damn Interesting -- This Place is Not a Place of Honor

"This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Schneier on Security -- Beyond Security Theater

'Security is both a feeling and a reality. The propensity for security theater comes from the interplay between the public and its leaders. When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. Our penchant for movie plots blinds us to the broader threats. And security theater consumes resources that could better be spent elsewhere. The best way to help people feel secure is by acting secure around them. Instead of reacting to terrorism with fear, we—and our leaders—need to react with indomitability. #Refuse to Be Terrorized.' -- Applies to any other 'movie-plot' hype @AlGore

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Anti-wi-fi paint offers security

'Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals. It means security-conscious wireless users could block their neighbours from being able to access their home network - without having to set up encryption. The paint contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi - or other radio waves - meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. By coating an entire room, signals can't get in and, crucially, can't get out. -- Mr Ohkoshi hopes that soon the technology could be woven into clothing. "We're not sure about the true effects of electromagnetic waves, in this range, on the human body. "We're assuming that excessive exposure could be bad for us. Therefore we're trying to make protective clothes for young children or pregnant women to help protect their bodies from such waves."'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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CNET News -- Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

'CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency. The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.' -- America Offline.

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The 0s and 1s of Computer Warfare

'It may pay to ask whether excessive secrecy is what has made our cyberspace insecure in the first place. If the last two decades, marked by the steep rise of open-source software developed and tested by large and open communities, have taught us anything about security, it is that excessive secrecy is usually not the best way to secure one’s networks.

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Smokescreen

'"You don't know me, but I know you..." Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online. We all use Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and MSN to keep up with our mates - and we've all heard the stories about parties on Facebook being mobbed, or people getting stalked on MSN. The question is, what would you do if it happened to you? -- Smokescreen is a game about online identity, trust, and privacy. Launching in September, Smokescreen is from Channel 4 and Six to Start.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Legacy Locker

'Legacy Locker is a safe, secure repository for your vital digital property that lets you grant access to online assets for friends and loved ones in the event of loss, death, or disability. -- Legacy Locker helps you pass your precious accounts safely and easily to your spouse, children, friends, or other family. You can assign any digital asset to any beneficiary you want, and know that your content will end up in the right hands. Plus, Legacy Letters let you send a special, easily editable message to anyone you know and care about.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack

'Gmail offered a hint as to which account the email to reset the password was being sent to, in case the user required a gentle reminder. In this case the obfuscated pointer to the location of the secondary email account was ******@h******.com. The natural best guess was that the secondary email account was hosted at hotmail.com. At Hotmail, Hacker Croll again attempted the password recovery procedure - making an educated guess of what the username would be based on what he already knew. This is the point where the chain of trust broke down, as the attacker discovered that the account specified as a secondary for Gmail, and hosted at Hotmail was no longer active. This is due to a policy at Hotmail where old and dormant accounts are removed and recycled. He registered the account, re-requested the password recovery feature at Gmail and within a few moments had access to the personal Gmail account of a Twitter employee. The first domino had fallen.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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TrueCrypt -- Hidden Volume

'It may happen that you are forced by somebody to reveal the password to an encrypted volume. There are many situations where you cannot refuse to reveal the password (for example, due to extortion). Using a so-called hidden volume allows you to solve such situations without revealing the password to your volume.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Deniable encryption

'In cryptography and steganography, deniable encryption is encryption that allows its user to deny the fact that he encrypted a file or partition, even if he actually did encrypt. Deniable encryption allows an encrypted message to be decrypted to different sensible plaintexts, depending on the key used, or otherwise makes it impossible to prove the existence of the real message without the proper encryption key. This allows the sender to have plausible deniability if compelled to give up his or her encryption key.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Schneier on Security -- Laptop Security while Crossing Borders

'Encrypt the data to a key you don't know. It sounds crazy, but stay with me. Caveat: Don't try this at home if you're not very familiar with whatever encryption product you're using. Failure results in a bricked computer. Don't blame me.' -- Comment: florian: 'This could be the basis of an interesting startup. One sends the key to this startup which transfers it to several persons out of a set of a lot of people, randomly so that no-one at the startup know who got the key. After successful arrival, one notifies the startup which then notifies all people. Those who got the key then physically transfer it to the traveler. This wouldn't be just plausible deniability, this would mean that one truly doesn't know who got the key.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?

'... the next generation of implantable devices to control prosthetic limbs will likely include wireless controls that allow physicians to remotely adjust settings on the machine. If neural engineers don’t build in security features such as encryption and access control, an attacker could hijack the device and take over the robotic limb. -- ...patients might even want to hack into their own neural device. Unlike devices to control prosthetic limbs, which still use wires, many deep brain stimulators already rely on wireless signals. Hacking into these devices could enable patients to “self-prescribe” elevated moods or pain relief by increasing the activity of the brain’s reward centers.' -- Neurosecurity, barrier mazes, ghost hacks, oh my!

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Forbes.com -- Your Own Private Internet

'The researchers, who previewed their concept to Forbes, say their model works like a private Internet on top of the existing public one: People can share information like files and messages via the Internet medium, but without the kind of public-facing personally identifiable information that Internet protocol addresses provide. "What we've done is taken the idea of a darknet and moved it into the browser platform," says Wood, the HP Web security researcher who developed the idea over the last several months. "This is really like a darknet for everyone. If you can use the Internet, you can use a darknet."'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Who's Watching You?: Episode 3

"The programme explores how, increasingly, modern surveillance relies on computer databases watching and recording everyone, not just the criminals and terrorists. Richard Bilton talks to former insiders who question the government's argument that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, and who say it is an argument for total surveillance and a total security state."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Who's Watching You?: Episode 2

"Richard Bilton meets those who have made our private lives their business - ex-soldiers watching suspected workplace thieves, corporate spooks trawling companies' rubbish for lucrative secrets, suppliers in the booming trade in tracking devices, secret cameras and hidden microphones. He also delves into the criminal underworld of hackers and blaggers who steal and sell our information."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Who's Watching You?: Episode 1

"Richard Bilton explores the hidden world of surveillance. He goes inside the CCTV nerve centre, sees how all our journeys can be monitored and meets undercover agents, those who are watched and those who have fallen foul of modern surveillance."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply

'Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people. -- Steve Wiggins, a rural development expert at the Overseas Development Institute, said: "There are very few economies of scale in most agriculture above the level of family farm because managing [the] labour is extremely difficult." Investors might also have to contend with hostility. "If I was a political-risk adviser to [investors] I'd say 'you are taking a very big risk'. Land is an extremely sensitive thing. This could go horribly wrong if you don't learn the lessons of history."' -- Pirates, RISE!

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Reporters Blow Up Plane, Expose Security Lapses

"271 are dead after an Onion News Network Special Investigative Report on airport security."

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Conficker

'Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in October 2008. The worm has several mechanisms for pushing or pulling executable payloads over the network. These payloads have, so far, been used by variants A, B and C to replace themselves with variant D, which does not infect new hosts over NetBIOS or through removable media.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Fast Company -- Security: Power To The People

'In an effort to bar the door against expanding criminal networks, certain communities will move to regulate, tax, and control everything from illegal immigration to illicit drugs... A newly vigilant and networked public will push for much greater levels of transparency in government and corporate operations, using the Internet to expose, publish, and patch potential security flaws. Over time, this new transparency, and the wider participation it entails, will lead to radical improvements in government and corporate efficiency. Like the Internet, these new networks will develop slowly at first. After a period of exponential growth, however, they will quickly become all but ubiquitous--and astonishingly powerful, perhaps as powerful as the networks arrayed against us. And so we will all become security consultants, taking an active role in deciding how it is bought, structured, and applied. That's a great responsibility and, with luck, an enormous opportunity. Choose wisely.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Most common passwords list from 3 databases

"There has been three instances that I know of where a significant number of hacked account passwords have been publicly released. I have obtained the lists and made a thorough analysis of each of them, including the most common passwords and character frequencies. In total, there were 116782 passwords."

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Failures of social media

'Users have tended to migrate from site to site as new services become more fashionable and old services become overpopulated with lame late adopters or worse, too many of those people who cause “contexts to collide”: As Boyd explains, “In choosing what to say when, we account for both the audience and the context more generally. Some behaviors are appropriate in one context but not another, in front of one audience but not others. Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it’s often difficult to figure out what’s appropriate, let alone what can be understood.” When your current friends get to see how you interact with people who knew you decades ago, or when parents can scrutinize profile pages looking for insight into their children’s social life apart from them, it can be problematic.' -- (That 'contexts collide' observation is worth repeating)

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Danah Boyd -- "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"

Three dynamics 'that have been reconfigured as a result of social media. #1. Invisible Audiences. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences. As a result, we are having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience. The potential invisible audiences can be stifling. #2. Collapsed Contexts. In choosing what to say when, we account for both the audience and the context more generally. Some behaviors are appropriate in one context but not another, in front of one audience but not others. Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood. #3. Blurring of Public and Private. These distinctions are normally structured around audience and context with certain places or conversations being "public" or "private" [and] are much harder to manage when you have to contend with the shifts in how the environment is organized.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- New 'safe' bed allows savers to safely store their cash under the mattress

'Robbie Feather, managing director of Feather & Black said: “Confidence in banks has hit an all-time low and fears of a recession crime wave have been raised by the Home Secretary. As a result people genuinely seem concerned about the safety of their money. Our new Safe bed began as a slightly tongue-in-cheek idea but we are now confident that it will appeal to home owners who want to store their money or valuable belongings in a safe place."'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Schneier on Security -- Privacy in the Age of Persistence

'Cardinal Richelieu famously said: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." When all your words and actions can be saved for later examination, different rules have to apply. Society works precisely because conversation is ephemeral; because people forget, and because people don't have to justify every word they utter.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Government plans travel database

"The government is compiling a database to track and store the international travel records of millions of Britons. The government says the database is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism." -- Dopplr API?

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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philosecurity -- Interview with an Adware Author

"Maybe 4 or 5 months into my tenure there, a virus came out that was disabling some of the machines that we had adware on. I said, “I know enough C that I could kick the virus off the machines,” and I did. They said “Wow, that was really cool. Why don’t you do that again?” Then I started kicking off other viruses, and they said, “That’s pretty cool that you kicked all the viruses off. Why don’t you kick the competitors off, too?”

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- UK Approves Police Hacking Home Computers

"To conduct the remote hacking, police can send an e-mail containing a virus to the suspect's computer, break into a residence to install a keystroke logger onto a machine or simply place a surveillance van in the vicinity of a wireless network to intercept the traffic. British police already have the ability to remotely search and monitor computers under legislation passed in the 90s, but such remote monitoring apparently has been rare until now..."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Hushmail -- Free Email with Privacy
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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Hotspot Shield for iPhone

"Please use the following instructions to setup Hotspot Shield on your iPhone. In just four easy steps, your connection will be secured."

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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AnchorFree

"AnchorFree has launched the world's only free ad-supported virtual private network client called Hotspot Shield. Utilized by millions of people in over 190 countries, the Hotspot Shield sets new privacy standards online for users world-wide. Hotspot Shield is powered by AnchorFree's global media network bringing new unique innovations to advertisers around the world. Advertisers interested in reaching traveling business people that get online on wired and Wi-Fi connections utilize AnchorFree as the solution." -- So smart.

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Gizmodo UK -- Airports To Use Emotional Screening And Subliminal Messages To Detect Terrorists

"It works by flashing subliminal images such as photos of Osama Bin Laden and words like 'Islamic Jihad' printed in Arabic which are supposed to stimulate an involuntary emotional response that could flag you as a high-risk passenger. Factors such as body temperature, heart-rate and respiration will be measured, often without you realising you're being monitored." -- FFS

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Blizzard Store -- Blizzard Authenticator (United States only)

"Protect your World of Warcraft account with industry leading account security - introducing the Blizzard Authenticator! The Blizzard Authenticator is designed as a supplemental authentication method for your World of Warcraft account, giving you the security of Two-Factor authentication. Each time you log in using the Blizzard Authenticator you are provided with a unique, one-time use password to use in addition to your regular password. Log in with both and you can rest easy knowing that your account is now even more secure from malicious attacks such as keyloggers and trojans."

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Internet privacy

"In 2006, a wireless hacker pled guilty when his Google searches were used as evidence against him. The defendant ran a Google search over the network using the following search terms: "how to broadcast interference over wifi 2.4 GHZ," "interference over wifi 2.4 Ghz," "wireless networks 2.4 interference," and "make device interfere wireless network." While court papers did not describe how the FBI obtained his searches (e.g. through a seized hard-drive or directly from the search-engine), Google has indicated that it can provide search terms to law enforcement if given an Internet address or Web cookie."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Forbes.com -- Economic Bust, Cybercrime Boom

'... online crime watchers see signs that a portion of newly unemployed skilled tech workers are turning to the theft and exploitation of sensitive data even as the existing cybercriminal economy is finding new ways to exploit consumer confusion around the banking meltdown. Litan blames the attacks on the thousands of IT workers who have recently found themselves jobless, with the technical abilities needed to steal data or perpetrate fraud along with specific knowledge of their former employer's IT systems. "In times like these, people need the cash," she says. "You have disgruntled IT employees that leave companies, take customer records with them to sell them on the black market." "These are talented computer scientists, people who expected to be in positions of prestige, but are now unemployed without prospects, basically let down by their system."'

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Knox — Simply secure encryption and backup for Macintosh computers

"As the only integrated solution for encryption and backup, Knox 1.6.1 makes securing your files easier than ever. Create as many encrypted vaults as you want, each with separate passwords. Then schedule automatic backups. You can even reformat USB sticks and external drives as encrypted Knox vaults — moving files between Macs has never been so simple and secure."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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New Scientist -- 'Pre-crime' detector shows promise

"We are running at about 78% accuracy on mal-intent detection, and 80% on deception."

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Threat Level -- Researchers Use Facebook App to Create Zombie Army - Update

"... in the background, the application is also downloading three large photos from a targeted site. But the user's browser never displays the images. Any application with enough users will then act like a denial of service attack flooding the chosen website with requests for data. The user stops being a part of the attack after logging out, but joins again every time he returns."

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Pentagon Researcher Unveils Warcraft Terror Plot

"The American military and intelligence communities are increasingly worried that would-be bin Ladens might gather in a virtual world, to plan a real-life attack. They imagine terrorists rehearsing attacks in these worlds, just like the U.S. military trains with commercial shoot-em-up games. They worry that the massively multiplayer games make it incredibly easy to gather plotters from around the world. But, mostly, virtual worlds are nerve-wracking to spies because they're so hard to monitor. The accounts are pseudonymous. The access is global. The jargon is thick. And most of the spy agencies' employees aren't exactly level-70 shamans." -- America LOL

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Webmonkey -- Why You Should Turn Gmail's SSL Feature On Now

"Makes you feel a little vulnerable knowing all your public information was so nakedly exposed over the past few years, huh? Did Google know about this? It turns out they were well aware of it. The reason Google didn’t grant users the SSL feature before, according to Perry, was because SSL is expensive. It takes a lot of bandwidth and time on both the receiver and transmitter sides to generate keys and encrypt data. Slower data connections would experience a lagging Gmail experience." -- PGP.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Chicago Tribune -- Hypertext: The wide world of the web

Cory Doctorow: 'If you understand the statistics of rare occurrences, you get off the plane in Las Vegas and think, "Holy crap, the casinos must have fleeced a lot of suckers to build those," and get back on the plane. But most of us get off the plane, look at the casinos and go, "Think of all the money there is to be won. I’m special, I’m different."'

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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BioWallet -- Secure Your Device!

"BioWallet is a biometric authentication system currently supporting iris based authentication." -- And then the kids just knife out your eyes.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Danger Room -- U.S. Satellites Snooping on Iraqi Army

"puts the United States in the unusual position of employing some of its most sophisticated espionage technology to track an allied army that American forces helped create, continue to advise, and often fight alongside." -- Who watches the watchmen?

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Security Matters -- I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

"Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?"

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC News -- Gun T-shirt 'was a security risk'

"... we won't be able to let you through because your T-shirt has got a gun on it." -- Rispekt mah authoritah!!1

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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AOL News -- TSA's Badges Are a Sore Spot With Cops

"Screeners at the nation's airport checkpoints are going to start wearing police-style badges - but real officers aren't too happy about it." -- Respek mai authoritah!!!

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- US seeks terrorists in web worlds

"The US government has begun a project to develop ways to spot terrorists who are using virtual worlds." -- I think we know precisely where all the *real* promoters of terror are.

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Flickr -- 2600 Hacker Quarterly: Facebook Applications Revealed

Social engineering and status spoofing exploits. Fun.

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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ParanoidLinux

"ParanoidLinux is a Linux distribution inspired by Cory Doctorow's Book, "Little Brother". Its goal is to provide the user with a linux system that is designed under the assumption that the owner is under attack or surveillance from the government..."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- New Spy Cam Software Blurs Faces of the Innocent

"Of course, a security guard or investigator could later unecrypt the faces, with the proper key (or a subpoena). So a person wouldn't know for sure he was hidden from the cameras forvever. But at least the decrypting would be an auditable event."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Report: Cybercrime Stormed the Net in 2007

"Fast flux constantly rotated the location where a user would find a web page by changing which of the thousands of computers in the botnet was serving up the fake banking site at any moment." -- Nifty.

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Our Data, Ourselves

"Who controls our data controls our lives."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Zombie Computers Decried As Imminent National Threat

'"The problem is no one is doing anything," Winkler said, proposing that users be fined or blocked if their computer is infected. "Guess what? If your system has a bot on it, you don't get on the internet," Winkler said, summarizing his proposal."'

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

"When it comes to IT technologies, the equities issue should be a no-brainer. The good uses of our common hardware, software, operating systems, network protocols, and everything else vastly outweigh the bad uses."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST

"... the engineer had just discovered that all information processing machines send their secrets into the electromagnetic ether."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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IEEE Spectrum -- The Hunt for the Kill Switch

'Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out. -- The economy is globalized, but defense is not globalized,” says Coleman. “How do you reconcile the two?' -- Hehe

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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BME/News -- Amal Graafstra Gets an RFID Implant

“It’s one small step for hand, one giant leap for keyless entry.”

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC - The battle against the botnet hordes

John Walker, security expert: "When you buy a router it should come with a health warning."

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional

"Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail... The security mindset is a valuable skill that everyone can benefit from, regardless of career path."

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision

Katherine Albrecht, founder of CASPIAN: "... our stores will one day turn into retail 'zoos' where the customer is always on exhibit."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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

"The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control. There is no security without privacy. And liberty requires both security and privacy... those who would give up privacy for security are likely to end up with neither."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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