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World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
From Schneier on Security

World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration

Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an...

Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives
From Schneier on Security

Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives

Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and...

More Surveillance in the UK
From Schneier on Security

More Surveillance in the UK

This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of...

Penny Shooter Business Card
From Schneier on Security

Penny Shooter Business Card

Nice. Of course, this means that the TSA will start banning wallets on airplanes.

The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected
From Schneier on Security

The Abdulmutallab that Should Have Been Connected

The notion that U.S. intelligence should have "connected the dots," and caught Abdulmutallab, isn't going away. This is a typical example: So you'd need comeresponds...

Me on Chinese Hacking and Enabling Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

Me on Chinese Hacking and Enabling Surveillance

CNN.com just published an essay of mine on China's hacking of Google, an update of this essay.

Friday Squid Blogging: Stuffed Giant Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Stuffed Giant Squid

Nice.

Transport Canada on its New Security Regulations
From Schneier on Security

Transport Canada on its New Security Regulations

Okay, it's really the Rick Mercer Report.

German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners
From Schneier on Security

German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners

The video is worth watching, even if you don't speak German. The scanner caught a subject's cell phone and Swiss Army knife -- and the microphone he was wearing...

Web Security
From Schneier on Security

Web Security

Nice article.

ATM Skimmer
From Schneier on Security

ATM Skimmer

Neat pictures. I would never have noticed it, which is precisely the point.

Wrasse Punish Cheaters
From Schneier on Security

Wrasse Punish Cheaters

Interesting: The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) operates an underwater health spa for larger fish. It advertises its services with bright colours...

The Problems of Profiling at Security Checkpoints
From Schneier on Security

The Problems of Profiling at Security Checkpoints

Good article.

Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees
From Schneier on Security

Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees

I don't know if this is real, but it seems perfectly reasonable that all of Facebook is stored in a huge database that someone with the proper permissions can access...

Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union
From Schneier on Security

Eavesdropping in the Former Soviet Union

Interesting story: The phone's ringer is a pretty simple thing: there's a coil, a magnet and a hammer controlled by the magnet that hits the gongs when there is...

Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction
From Schneier on Security

Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction

Interesting: Any facility executive involved in the design of a new building would agree that security is one important goal for the new facility. These days,...

Google vs. China
From Schneier on Security

Google vs. China

I'm not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I've previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja...

Prison Escape Artist
From Schneier on Security

Prison Escape Artist

Clever ruse: When he went to court for hearings, he could see the system was flawed. He would arrive on the twelfth floor in handcuffs and attached at the waist...

Fixing Intelligence Failures
From Schneier on Security

Fixing Intelligence Failures

President Obama, in his speech last week, rightly focused on fixing the intelligence failures that resulted in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being ignored, rather than...

Loretta Napoleoni on the Economics of Terrorism
From Schneier on Security

Loretta Napoleoni on the Economics of Terrorism

Interesting TED talk: Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest...
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