I’m at home tonight, working my way through my inbox which is about at attractive as a coastal USA beach after the spring breakers have been partying there all day. But I will get to the bottom of it, I’m going to do it! Anyway, I’m not going to post anything half clever here tonight [...]
Archive for the ‘SECURITY & PRIVACY’ Category
Marissa Mayer
Posted in GEEKDOM, HEH, PARTICIPATORY MEDIA, PEEPS, SECURITY & PRIVACY on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No Cause For Concern
Posted in HEH, POLITICS, SECURITY & PRIVACY, WTF? on November 27, 2007 | Comments Off
Better than the usual tube announcements:
Irony To Irons
Posted in HEH, SECURITY & PRIVACY, TELECOM on August 26, 2006 | Comments Off
Tech exec, former Comverse CEO, Jakob “Kobi” Alexander, was on the lamb from the Feds for alleged shady options dating. According to the press he’s been nabbed after being traced making a Skype call from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Anonymous peer-to-peer, not; shouldn’t a tech exec know that? It gets better, it’s said a private detective [...]
Woolsey And Schultz
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, POLITICS, SECURITY & PRIVACY on April 15, 2006 | Comments Off
I just finished reading the Committee on the Present Danger Policy Paper: OIL & SECURITY and The Petroleum Bomb, a small part of my Easter weekend reading keeping me from more outdoor time (I did get a short hike in today, though). Not sure if I agree with it all, but one thing I do [...]
Subway Photography
Posted in HEH, PHOTOGRAPHY, SECURITY & PRIVACY on April 5, 2006 | Comments Off
The MTA is backing off their position re photography in and about the transit system. Their representation that photography is illegal has been used to intimidate photographers on more than one occasion. There was not law, there is no law that makes photography illegal. Catherine Rinaldi, general counsel and deputy executive director for MTA, conceded [...]
EFF Files Lawsuit Against AT&T
Posted in POLITICS, SECURITY & PRIVACY, WTF? on January 31, 2006 | Comments Off
This is going to be very interesting. I wonder how ATT customers and shareholders will respond. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s website: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the [...]
Jon Lech Johansen
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, PEEPS, SECURITY & PRIVACY on October 18, 2005 | Comments Off
Jon Lech Johansen (a/k/a DVD Jon) is moving to Cali to work for Michael Robertson. Wired Says: Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met [...]
EFF Uncovers Hidden Codes
Posted in SECURITY & PRIVACY on October 17, 2005 | Comments Off
When you print on certain (all?) colour laser printers it appears the manufacturer of your printer may have secretively built in a way for tracking a document back to you. I guess if someone is printing counterfeit money this could be useful however this sort of tracking is also somewhat creepy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation [...]
Fed Authentication
Posted in GEEKDOM, SECURITY & PRIVACY on September 6, 2005 | Comments Off
This is the tip of the iceberg. It would make a lot of sense for there to be a means of authenticating feds. For example, how does one determine the person who identified himself as an agent of a government is indeed as represented? When a vehicle with the markings of an ambulance or police [...]
VC Hacks Movie Theatre
Posted in SECURITY & PRIVACY on July 16, 2005 | Comments Off
I’m not sure it was necessary to actually perform this hack, we all knew that it would work. Before I read Cowan’s blog entry I literally was just explaining to someone how we got into a security mess as complex as we are in today, so I had a really good chuckle when I read [...]
I’m Gobsmacked
Posted in SECURITY & PRIVACY, WTF? on June 6, 2005 | Comments Off
What in fsck sake could they have been thinking sending tapes containing customer data for 3.9 million accounts in such a manner? At least tell me the data is encrypted with a strong key.
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