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Schneier on Security


Social Engineering

Video demonstrating how easy it is to social engineer you way into clubs by pretending you're the DJ.

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TSA Proud of Confiscating Non-Dangerous Item

This is just sad. The TSA confiscated a battery pack not because it's dangerous, but because other passengers might think its dangerous. And they're proud of the fact. "We must treat every...

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The DNS Vulnerability

Despite the best efforts of the security community, the details of a critical internet vulnerability discovered by Dan Kaminsky about six months ago have leaked. Hackers are racing to produce exploit...

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World War II Deception Story

Great security story from an obituary of former OSS agent Roger Hall:One of his favorite OSS stories involved a colleague sent to occupied France to destroy a seemingly impenetrable German tank...

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Washington Post Comments on Terrorist Plots

From this article, published last April:Batiste confided, somewhat fantastically, that he wanted to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, which would then fall into a nearby prison, freeing Muslim...

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Schneier Interviewed by RU Sirius

From April: audio, transcript.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Burning Squid

At the June Apogaea regional Burning Man event in Colorado, they burned a wooden/cloth giant squid. Before the burn, participants could crawl into the base of the body and turn a massive...

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Write-Once Read-Many Memory Cards

SanDisk has introduced Write-Once Read-Many Memory (WORM) cards for forensic applications.

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Software Liabilities and Free Software

Whenever I write about software liabilities, many people ask about free and open source software. If people who write free software, like PasswordSafe, are forced to assume liabilities, they will...

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Sky Marshals on the No-Fly List

If this weren't so sad, it would be funny: The problem with federal air marshals (FAM) names matching those of suspected terrorists on the no-fly list has persisted for years, say air marshals...

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