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Bruce SchneierBruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," Schneier is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.

His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography , explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as "the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published." His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies , was called by Fortune "[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use." His current book, Beyond Fear , tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security.

Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram , with over 100,000 readers. In its seven years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security. As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news. Regularly quoted in the media, Schneier has written op ed pieces for several major newspapers, and has testified on security before the United States Congress on many occasions.

Bruce Schneier is the founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. and has a biograph on Wikipedia


  • Friday Squid Blogging: Preserving Your Giant Squid

    Plastination:

    For several years von Hagens and his team experimented using smaller squid, and found that the fragility of the skin needed a slower replacement process than other animal specimens.

    Some 1500 litres of silicone later, the plastination of the giant cephalopods was completed in January.


  • Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol

    This would worry me, if the liquid ban weren't already useless.

    The reporter found the security flaw in the airport's duty-free shopping system. At Schiphol airport, passengers flying to countries outside the Schengan Agreement Area can buy bottles of alcohol at duty-free shops before going through security. They are then permitted to take these bottles onto flights, provided that they have the bottles sealed at the shop.

    Mr Stegeman bought a bottle, emptied it and refilled it with another liquid. After that he returned to the same shop and 'bought' the refilled bottle again. The shop sealed the bottle in a bag, allowing him to take it with him through security and onto a London-bound flight. In London, he transferred planes and carried the bottle onto a flight to Washington DC.

    The flaw, of course, is the assumption that bottles bought at a duty-free shop actually come from the duty-free shop.

    But note that 1) it's the same airport as underwear bomber, 2) reporter is known for trying to defeat airport security, and 3) body scanners would have made no difference.

    Watch the TV program here.


  • Security Trade-Offs and Sacred Values

    Interesting research:

    Psychologist Jeremy Ginges and his colleagues identified this backfire effect in studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2007. They interviewed both Israelis and Palestinians who possessed sacred values toward key issues such as ownership over disputed territories like the West Bank or the right of Palestinian refugees to return to villages they were forced to leave?these people viewed compromise on these issues completely unacceptable. Ginges and colleagues found that individuals offered a monetary payout to compromise their values expressed more moral outrage and were more supportive of violent opposition toward the other side. Opposition decreased, however, when the other side offered to compromise on a sacred value of its own, such as Israelis formerly renouncing their right to the West Bank or Palestinians formally recognizing Israel as a state. Ginges and Scott Atran found similar evidence of this backfire effect with Indonesian madrassah students, who expressed less willingness to compromise their belief in sharia, strict Islamic law, when offered a material incentive.

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    After giving their opinions on Iran?s nuclear program, all participants were asked to consider one of two deals for Iranian disarmament. Half of the participants read about a deal in which the United States would reduce military aid to Israel in exchange for Iran giving up its military program. The other half of the participants read about a deal in which the United States would reduce aid to Israel and would pay Iran $40 billion. After considering the deal, all participants predicted how much the Iranian people would support the deal and how much anger they would feel toward the deal. In line with the Palestinian-Israeli and Indonesian studies, those who considered the nuclear program a sacred value expressed less support, and more anger, when the deal included money.


  • Disabling Cars by Remote Control

    Who didn't see this coming?

    More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

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    Ramos-Lopez?s account had been closed when he was terminated from Texas Auto Center in a workforce reduction last month, but he allegedly got in through another employee?s account, Garcia says. At first, the intruder targeted vehicles by searching on the names of specific customers. Then he discovered he could pull up a database of all 1,100 Auto Center customers whose cars were equipped with the device. He started going down the list in alphabetical order, vandalizing the records, disabling the cars and setting off the horns.


  • Casino Hack

    Nice hack:

    Using insider knowledge the two hacked into software that controlled remote betting machines on live roulette wheels, the report said.

    The machines would print out winning betting slips regardless of the results on the wheel, Peterborough Today said.

    I'd like to know how they got caught.

    EDITED TO ADD (4/17): They got their math wrong:

    However, the scheme came unstuck after an alert cashier noticed a winning slip for £600 for a £10 bet at odds of 35-1. The casino launched an investigation that unearthed a string of other suspicious bets, traced back to Ashley and Bhagat, IT contractors working at the casino at the time of the scam.


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