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Speed camera 'pimping' attack highlights public identity weaknesses

Speed camera 'pimping' attack highlights public identity weaknessesCar Licence PlatesThe plates could be fitted with transponders to report their public key when scanned by a speed camera.Hey, then you could put sensors in red light cameras, and intersections, and motorway monitoring systems. This would make it much easier for the...

Tags: public identity weakness, identity weakness, car, camera, attack

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

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Microsoft and Novell at two: Was the patent pact worth it?

Microsoft and Novell at two: Was the patent pact worth it?Sheer brillianceNot that I'm going to start any wars or anything, but from a business perspective this deal was totally worth it. Microsoft got to wiggle its way into mixed source environments. Novell got a lifeline and became a bigger...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., openSUSE

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

NYC prosecutors back ban on sex predators

NYC prosecutors back ban on sex predatorsI'm torn on this issueBeing the father of an 11yo daughter who uses facebook & myspace, I want her to be protected. She is not allowed to talk to anyone online who she doesn't know in real life. I monitor her usage, and she...

Tags: sex predator, sexual offender, sex offender, offender

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Tim O'Reilly's code of (mis)conduct

Tim O'Reilly's code of misconductI'm not sure I agree.What O'Reilly says is that these people have bad characters in the first place. The anonymity creates an environment that these people abuse. However, anonymity protects all of us from other wierdo's and guarantees freedom of speech since the consequences will not...

Tags: Blogging, Criminal Activity, Network TV, blogger, Tim O'Reilly, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

Inside the $100 laptop's security spec

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ivan Krstić mission to make the $100 laptop a monoculture of impossible targets shifted into high gear with the public release of Bitfrost, an architecture-level specification covering the OLPC One Laptop Per Child security model. Krstić delivered the spec at the RSA security conference here and...

Tags: Hackers, Browsers, Rootkits, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Data theft, Open source, OLPC, laptop computer, Ivan Krstić, security

Blog posts 2007-02-07

A Cryptanalysis of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection System

This paper describes a weakness in the High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP scheme which may lead to practical attacks. HDCP is a proposed identity-based cryptosystem for use over the Digital Visual Interface bus, a consumer video bus used to connect personal computers and digital display devices. Public/private key pairs...

Tags: Device, Secret, University Of California, HDCP, Corporate Communications, Security, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-01

Microsoft pushes standardized SSO at RSA

Microsoft pushes standardized SSO at RSAI like the sound of it, but..what if a user cannot remember his user name and password, so he writes it down.. Somebody "acquires" his user name and password and logs into the system..That's two systems this person has acces to, the one from Company...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, SECURITY, specification, Microsoft Corp., VeriSign Inc., RSA Security Inc., bouncer, single sign-on

Discussion threads 2006-02-15

Making Wikipedia better, Part II

This is Part Two of my three postings about how Wikipedia can be improved. Ross Mayfield, a friend and frequent interlocutor with me on this subject told me the first installment made him want to strangle me, which I find encouraging. Tough love makes us better.I wish Wikipedia would forget...

Tags: Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-01-05

Identity theft: Attack the right issue

Identity theft: Attack the right issueAMEN !!! NT.Identy theft: Attack the right issueExactly right!This is the same problem as with Spam. Spammers will always find a way around the obstacles we throw at them. So don't spend all your efforts into making the system foolproof....

Tags: Spam, Sales channel, spammer, credit card, identity theft

Discussion threads 2005-04-14

Competition grows for global offshoring

Competition grows for global offshoringHow about In-Shoring...How about In-Shoring and giving the people of this country jobs back. Screw the ret of other countries they had their chance, stop putting dowm the American worker.Its impossible to compete...How can the average American living in a country which requires well over...

Tags: Outsourcing, Leadership, Free trade, Branding, American Public, American Worker, offshoring

Discussion threads 2005-02-11

MyDoom variant slams mailboxes

MyDoom variant slams mailboxesHow many times do peoplehave to get burned before they learn to not play with fire?JUST GET IT OVER WITH AND CREATE THE UBER VIRUSJust create a virus that once and for all propagates and mutates whenever it thinks it's being scanned and do what you are...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., virus, MADNES, WWW, MyDoom virus

Discussion threads 2004-07-26

Sharing the love--and data--through SharePoint

Sharing the love--and data--through SharePointWinFS and sharepointThis concept sounds extremely well thought out and it is very logical. One needs to be able to colaborate all documents, Microsoft is thinking ahead with this technology.IFolder does this for free peer to peerNovell's GPL licensed Ifolder does this in a peer to...

Tags: DATA MANAGEMENT, Groupware, Peer to peer (P2P), Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint, Novell iFolder

Discussion threads 2004-04-06