Al Qaeda Secret Code Broken
I would sure like to know more about this: Top code-breakers at the Government Communications Headquarters in the United Kingdom have succeeded in breaking the secret language that has allowed...
View ArticleDecertifying "Terrorist" Pilots
This article reads like something written by the company’s PR team. When it comes to sleuthing these days, knowing your way within a database is as valued a skill as the classic, Sherlock Holmes-styled...
View ArticleNorbt
Norbt (no robot) is a low-security web application to encrypt web pages. You can create and encrypt a webpage. The key is an answer to a question; anyone who knows the answer can see the page. I’m not...
View ArticleUsers Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on security questions. They chose weak passwords,...
View ArticleVirtual Mafia in Online Worlds
If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game was the ability to declare that another...
View ArticleMumbai Terrorist Attacks
Long, detailed, and very good story of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of last year. My own short commentary in the aftermath of the attacks.
View ArticleLeaked 9/11 Text Messages
Wikileaks has published pager intercepts from New York on 9/11: WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11,...
View ArticleFear and Public Perception
This 1996 interview with psychiatrist Robert DuPont was part of a Frontline program called “Nuclear Reaction.” He’s talking about the role fear plays in the perception of nuclear power. It’s a lot of...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Being Scammed
This is a very interesting paper: “Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security,” by Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson. Paul Wilson produces and stars in the British television show...
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