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Welcome back!Brilliant: Bruce Schneier writes about a contest for a new TSA logo:
“Let’s do it. I’m announcing the TSA Logo Contest. Rules are simple: create a TSA logo. People are welcome to give ideas in the comments, but only actual created logos are eligible to compete. (When my website administrator wakes up, I’ll ask him [...]
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Great stuff. Some quotes:
Are you defending us against terrorists that are too stupid to google “fly without id”
Even if the cryptography sucks – it’s not worth bothering – something else sucks more.
Also available as a download for your iPod or PSP
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(Crude translation of the german article)
“Kubbanys second first name Hassan, so the analysis of its credit-worthiness by the credit agency TransUnion, stands for allegedly third son of the Iraqi ex dictator on a terrorist list of the US Government – as alias for Ali Saddam Hussein aluminium-Tikriti, that.
“It was surrealâ€, remembers Kubbany. “Everything ran off [...]
(But then again – who does). I also learned through his post that there’s now a Wikipedia entry on security theater.
But to get to the point:
“I ran into this idiotic bullshit when I flew up to San Francisco last week, when my deadly, deadly toothpaste was taken away from me, because it was “way [...]
… he uses Bruce Schneier as the signing authority.
More Bruce Schneier Facts
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Excellent article by Gene Spafford about threads regarding password policies. Best article on the topic I’ve seen yet – and lots of wisdom to use for your own security related discussions.
“From a high-level perspective, let me observe that one problem with any widespread change policy is that it fails to take into account the various [...]
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