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How to Commandeer a Store PA System
From Schneier on Security

How to Commandeer a Store PA System

If you call the proper phone extension, you have complete control over the public address system at a Target store....

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Photos
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Photos

"Terrifying" squid photos. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....

Mapping FinFisher Users
From Schneier on Security

Mapping FinFisher Users

Citizen Lab continues to do excellent work exposing the world's cyber-weapons arms manufacturers. Its latest report attempts to track users of Gamma International's...

Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)
From Schneier on Security

Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)

The Internet is abuzz with this blog post and paper, speculating that the NSA is breaking the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol in the wild through massive precomputation...

Problems with DNA Evidence
From Schneier on Security

Problems with DNA Evidence

Turns out it's fallible....

On Cyber Arms Control Treaties
From Schneier on Security

On Cyber Arms Control Treaties

Good op-ed....

Obama Administration Not Pursuing a Backdoor to Commercial Encryption
From Schneier on Security

Obama Administration Not Pursuing a Backdoor to Commercial Encryption

The Obama Administration is not pursuing a law that would force computer and communications manufacturers to add backdoors to their products for law enforcement...

Jamming Wi-Fi
From Schneier on Security

Jamming Wi-Fi

It's both easy and cheap. Slashdot thread....

Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters
From Schneier on Security

Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters

In the 19980s, the Soviet Union bugged the IBM Selectric typewriters in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. This NSA document discusses how the US discovered the bugs and...

NSA Patents
From Schneier on Security

NSA Patents

Details on the patents issued to the NSA....

Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid Recipe
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid Recipe

Delicious recipe of squid with cabbage, bean sprouts, and noodles. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...

I'm a Guest on "Adam Ruins Everything"
From Schneier on Security

I'm a Guest on "Adam Ruins Everything"

The show is about security theater. I am a disembodied head on a scooter. Here's a teaser. Here's the full episode (for pay, but cheap). The scooter idea was a...

SHA-1 Freestart Collision
From Schneier on Security

SHA-1 Freestart Collision

There's a new cryptanalysis result against the hash function SHA-1: Abstract: We present in this article a freestart collision example for SHA-1, i.e., a collision...

Information in Your Boarding Pass's Bar Code
From Schneier on Security

Information in Your Boarding Pass's Bar Code

There's a lot of information, including the ability to get even more information....

European Court of Justice Rules Against Safe Harbor
From Schneier on Security

European Court of Justice Rules Against Safe Harbor

The European Court of Justice ruled that sending personal data to the US violates their right to privacy: The ruling, by the European Court of Justice, said the...

Autonomous Vehicles as Bombs
From Schneier on Security

Autonomous Vehicles as Bombs

Good discussion of the issues. Now we need to think about solutions....

Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance

ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but they'll soon be obsolete. You won't have to show your ID, because you'll be identified automatically...

Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Keeps Bacteria to Protect Its Eggs
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Keeps Bacteria to Protect Its Eggs

The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid deposits bacteria on its eggs to keep them safe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...

Resilient Systems News
From Schneier on Security

Resilient Systems News

Former Raytheon chief scientist Bill Swanson has joined our board of directors. For those who don't know, Resilient Systems is my company. I'm the CTO, and we sell...

Stealing Fingerprints
From Schneier on Security

Stealing Fingerprints

The news from the Office of Personnel Management hack keeps getting worse. In addition to the personal records of over 20 million US government employees, we've...
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