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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...limit competition for ancillary products. With Mac computers, anyone can sell software that does anything. But Apple gets to decide who can sell what on the iPhone. It can foster competition when it wants, and reserve itself a monopoly position when it wants. And it can dictate terms to any company that wants to sell iPhone software and...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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The Fox and the Henhouse

2008-01-28 15:02:17 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...limit the bank¹s losses Although Societe Generale did not identify the trader responsible for the fraud in their initial communications, he has subsequently been identified as one Jerome Kerviel Societe Generale's press release regarding the incident can be found here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/graphics/2008/01/24/socgen.pdf The...
 
Tags: societe generale, societe generale begins, yesterday societe generale, societe generale appears, risk management lessons, risk management, risk management personnel, plain vanilla futures, apparently
 
 
 
 
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The Fox and the Henhouse

2008-01-28 15:02:17 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...limit the bank??s losses Although Societe Generale did not identify the trader responsible for the fraud in their initial communications, he has subsequently been identified as one Jerome Kerviel Societe Generale's press release regarding the incident can be found here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/graphics/2008/01/24/socgen.pdf The...
 
Tags: societe generale, societe generale begins, jerome kerviel, kerviel, yesterday societe generale, apparently, bank apparently, bank, prevent kerviel
 
 
 
 
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UNICEF Too IFRAME Injected and SEO Poisoned

The Article has images
2008-04-01 07:42:20 by HASH0x8b227b4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Limit Exceeded. The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later " messages This is the perfect moment to point out that as of yesterday's afternoon the search engines that were indexing the SEO poisoned pages have implemented filters so that the malicious...
 
Tags: seo, unicef, easy seo, site, site owner, iframe, unicef effect, massive seo, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Sprint's Public Safety Deal for Nextel Comes Home to Roost

2008-05-05 14:25:10 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...limit on how much Sprint would have to pay for public safety migration--as much as it cost is the true limit Last August, the Wall Street Journal did a lengthy update of the 2005 deal , explaining that the effort was vastly behind schedule, and was vastly underbudgeted, too. One county in Pennsylvania estimated that its costs could run $18.5m...
 
Tags: public safety deal, public safety, sprint, cost sprint billions, cost, nextel, reportedly sprint, public safety migration, delay sprint
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-15 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...limited merely to financial or health information. It should limit others' ability to buy and sell our information without our knowledge and consent. It should allow us to see information about us held by others, and correct any inaccuracies we find. It should prevent the government from going after our information without judicial oversight....
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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Our Data, Ourselves

2008-05-20 13:10:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...limited merely to financial or health information. It should limit others' ability to buy and sell our information without our knowledge and consent. It should allow us to see information about us held by others, and correct any inaccuracies we find. It should prevent the government from going after our information without judicial oversight....
 
Tags: data, medical data, enforce data deletion, data shadow, limit data collection, limit, data banks, data controls, information brokers
 
 
 
 
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42 Days In A Hole?

2008-06-12 13:58:15 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...limit without charges to 42 days. This has triggered a firestorm From BBC Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his...
 
Tags: move, british civil liberties, extraordinary move, bush white houses, fundamental british freedoms, recreational horticulture, news consumption, article link, detention limit
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

2008-06-26 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...limiting capabilities. Cellphones could be remotely set to vibrate mode in restaurants and concert halls, and be turned off on airplanes and in hospitals. Cameras could be prohibited from taking pictures in locker rooms and museums, and recording equipment could be disabled in theaters. Professors finally could prevent students from texting...
 
Tags: security, wireless devices, devices, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Kill Switches and Remote Control

2008-07-01 06:48:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...limiting capabilities. Cellphones could be remotely set to vibrate mode in restaurants and concert halls, and be turned off on airplanes and in hospitals. Cameras could be prohibited from taking pictures in locker rooms and museums, and recording equipment could be disabled in theaters. Professors finally could prevent students from texting...
 
Tags: wireless devices, devices, devices inevitably, digital manners policies, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students