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Airplane Security Commentary

2010-01-13 14:55:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...security Third: A terrorist set fire to his own trousers, suffering eyewateringly painful burns to what Australian cricket commentators sometimes refer to as the "groinal area", and nobody seems to be laughing. What's wrong with us
 
 
 
 
 
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Op-ed on CIA's National Clandestine Service

 
 
 
 
 
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The Power Law of Terrorism

2010-01-12 13:46:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Research result #1 : " A Generalized Fission-Fusion Model for the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks ," by Aaron Clauset and Frederik W. Wiegel. Plot the number of people killed in terrorists attacks around the world since 1968 against the frequency with which such attacks occur and youll get a power law distribution, thats a fancy way of...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Comparative Risk of Terrorism

2010-01-12 06:15:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Good essay from the Wall Street Journal : It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but there is nothing nuanced about two basic facts: (1) America is a country of 310 million people, in which thousands of horrible things happen every single day; and 2) The chances that...
 
 
 
 
 
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My Second CNN.com Essay on the Underwear Bomber

2010-01-11 13:46:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This one is about our tendency to overreact to rare risks, and is an update of this 2007 essay I think we should start calling them the "underpants of mass destruction
 
 
 
 
 
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768-bit Number Factored

2010-01-11 08:00:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
News : On December 12, 2009, we factored the 768-bit, 232-digit number RSA-768 by the number field sieve. The number RSA-768 was taken from the now obsolete RSA Challenge list as a representative 768-bit RSA modulus. This result is a record for factoring general integers. Factoring a 1024-bit RSA modulus would be about a thousand times harder,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Quilt

2010-01-08 16:54:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Light-up squid quilt
 
 
 
 
 
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Cybersecurity Theater at FOSE

2010-01-08 12:14:56 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...security Theater " this year. I wonder if they'll check the photo ID of everyone who tries to get in On a similar note, I am pleased that my term "security theater" has finally hit the mainstream . It's everywhere . My favorite variant is " security theater of the absurd And this great cartoon . And two more Jon Stewart didn't use the words...
 
 
 
 
 
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FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified USB Memory Stick Cracked

2010-01-08 07:24:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...security experts found a rather blatant flaw that has quite obviously slipped through testers' nets. During a successful authorisation procedure the program will, irrespective of the password, always send the same character string to the drive after performing various crypto operations -- and this is the case for all USB Flash drives of this...
 
 
 
 
 
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Connecting the Dots

2010-01-07 17:40:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I wrote about intelligence failures back in 2002 EDITED TO ADD (1/7): Tom Toles cartoon on connecting the dots
 
 
 
 
 
 
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