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Clever Museum Theft

2008-06-06 05:04:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Museum of Anthropology: A dozen pieces of gold jewelry designed by prominent Canadian artist Bill Reid were stolen from the museum sometime on May 23, along with three pieces of gold-plated Mexican jewelry. The pieces that were taken are estimated to be worth close to $2 million Of course, it's not the museum's fault: But museum director...
 
Tags: compromise security, security, museum, campus security, security failure, security system, computer program printouts, system, key surveillance cameras
 
 
 
 
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Life Is A Technology Museum

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2008-07-05 20:13:08 by Editor in Cheap Hack
...Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the subway I noticed one of the machines that sells MetroCards (the fare cards for the NYC transit) rebooting;. I wasn't able to get my cell phone camera going until it was in the boot-time banner. Turns out the machine was a bit of a museum piece itself. Before that I watched it in...
 
Tags: museum, workstation service pack, service pack, cell phone camera, metropolitan transportation authority, metrocard machine, machine, banner, boot-time banner
 
 
 
 
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Life Is a Technology Museum

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2008-07-05 20:13:08 by Editor in Cheap Hack
...Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the subway I noticed one of the machines that sells MetroCards (the fare cards for the NYC transit) rebooting. I wasn't able to get my cell phone camera going until it was in the boot-time banner. Turns out the machine was a bit of a museum piece itself. Before that I watched it in...
 
Tags: museum, workstation service pack, service pack, cell phone camera, metropolitan transportation authority, metrocard machine, machine, banner, boot-time banner
 
 
 
 
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Picasso Stolen from Brazilian Museum

2007-12-27 13:41:36 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
A professional job: The thieves used a hydraulic car jack to pry their way past the pull-down metal gate that protects the museum's front entrance. Then, they smashed through two glass doors, probably using a crowbar, to get to the
 
Tags: hydraulic car jack, professional job, glass doors, front entrance, pull-down metal, museum, crowbar, pry, protects
 
 
 
 
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Art and science: Bruce Schneier shares security ideas at museum

2008-03-28 00:00:00 by Ann Bednarz in Network World on Security
 
Bruce Schneier shared his ideas about the psychology of security, and the need for thinking sensibly about security, in his hometown Wednesday night when he gave a lecture at the Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota
 
Tags: bruce schneier, security, hometown wednesday night, weisman art museum, ideas, university, minnesota, lecture, sensibly
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Plastinated Squid

2008-03-28 16:29:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Museum of Natural History on Tuesday unveiled the world's first "plastinated" squid -- a 6.5-metre-long (21.25-feet) deep-sea beast donated by New Zealand and named in honour of a creature featuring in Maori legend Plastination entails replacing the animal's water, fat and other liquids with a polymer that hardens It means the specimen can be...
 
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Bletchley Park May Close Due to Lack of Funds

2008-05-30 06:45:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...museum, faces a bleak future unless it can secure funding to keep its doors open and its numerous exhibits from rotting away The Bletchley Park Trust receives no external funding. It has been deemed ineligible for funding by the National Lottery, and turned down by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation because the Microsoft founder will only...
 
Tags: lack, bletchley park site, site, hardest-up museum, greenish, trust, simon greenish, museum, funds
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Portland Coverage of MetroFi; Boston's Measured Pace

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2008-05-19 13:10:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Museum of Science in Boston notes that the local non-profit's slow pace--accidental, he notes, as it intended to roll out faster--could produce more information and a better result than the many failed all-at-once attempts for deployment. My current line on this is that Wi-Fi's likely utility in a city is in site-specific, limited area...
 
Tags: metrofi, metrofi plans, notes, mike rogoway notes, network, network exception, city, skypilot nodes, skypilot
 
 
 
 
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More Schneier Talks

2008-05-23 12:09:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Here's an audio of my talk at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis on March 27 And a video from my talk at the Hack-in-the-Box conference in Dubai on April 16
 
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Security Briefing: May 30th

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2008-05-30 14:29:34 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...museum buildings Plcurecuernxf - fcraq n craal ba gur ravtzn naq fnir gur jbeyq sebz Uvgyre ntnva - be gur npnqrzvp trgf vg 22 French Hackers Arrested 22 SkriptKiddies singing the Jean Valjean lines from Les Miserables the horror USA 2008 : Briefings Schedule All your briefs belong to Jeff Moss Rands In Repose: We Travel in Tribes Im sneaking...
 
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