Posts Tagged ‘Security

26Jan

Free luggage protection courtesy of the TSA

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Welcome back!Are you worried about your luggage getting lost? Carrying expensive camera or computer gear and want to make sure it arrives at your destination?
Try this (by Bruce Schneier):
“I have a starter pistol for all my cases. All I have to do upon check-in is tell the airline ticket agent that I have a weapon [...]

Get it now!

I’ll be spending the rest of this week visiting European Identity Conference 2009 in Munich. I was there last year, and it’s an event worth visiting – a diverse set of great personalities in the identity space, and a perfect opportunity for networking.
I’ll be blogging and twittering (use hashtag “#eic2009″) here, and you can follow [...]

21Aug

The danger of the Kill Switch

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

There has been a lot of talk around the “kill switch” that Apple seems to have implemented in the iPhone.
While people say the app review before stuff gets released in the AppStore should prevent them from having to use it, I can understand why that will not work. The review can only be on the [...]

06Aug

How a baby became Bin Laden

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

I’m always wondering about the trend to more IT in passports, government transactions and medical systems. Stuff like that has been pushed by the industry for years now, never even bothering about its usefulness or – behold – business case. In my view, this is driven purely by vendor sports.

Look at this:
“Jeroen van Beek [...]

15Apr

test.com

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Last week we were starting to test an application that I implemented for a customer. Part of that application does approval workflows, so we had to create test users. We did not want to disturb real users with emails, so the customer created the test users with “name.lastname@test.com” email addresses.
After about a week we started [...]

28Feb

Security Problem Excuse Bullshit Bingo Generator

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Via Fefe
http://www.crypto.com/bingo/pr
Use at your own discretion. Great fun for RSA conference, probably ;)

12Dec

Security Madness

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

I’m with a customer trying to implement an access control solution on a test system. Once the test is finished, the system will be refreshed.
I’m with the customer for 2.5 days now, and only a few minutes ago did I get the right kind of authorizations to do my work. I have gotten to know [...]


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