So my son saw an option in the settings for his Flip-like video camera that said “Format SD card” and assumed it meant format the video he took to save it to the SD card. Having never in his life…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Will Schneier pull a Krugman?
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I had just finished reading Bruce Schneier’s blog post “Security in 2020” when further review of blogs I follow pointed me to Chris Alden’s post “Julian Simon, and Paul Krugman, Remembered.” Alden’s post reminisced about a 1998 issue of his…
To Infinity… and Beyond! The security edition…
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In security, annual recaps and predictions are often depressing and not particularly insightful. Let’s face it — it isn’t difficult to assert that there will be more nation-state involvement in increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks against foreign and domestic targets, all…
Survey Results: Will the TSA scanners/body searches work and is it worth it?
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There is plenty of discussion about the TSA scanners – they are too invasive, they won’t work, etc. I did a quick survey on Mechanical Turk of “people living in the U.S.” (I didn’t actually verify this, but that was…
Fake Users Proliferating?
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The issue of fake Internet users has been around for as long as the Internet, but it sure seems like they are really starting to proliferate. In the age of social networks and collaboration, this can be a real problem.…
Monoculture Revisited
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It’s been eight years since the “great monoculture debate” hit the press with a storm. Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum take on the topic in their he says/she says column for searchsecurity, though it doesn’t appear that Schneier actually believes…