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RFID: Menace in the Far North

2007-01-05 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...streets, it is not easy to muster sympathy for polar bears laboring under the hardships of global warming. I know, however, that their discomfort on the northern fringes of the continent signifies a larger encroaching problem--one that may someday affect me. What prompts me to spare a thought for those creatures in the distant north is a...
 
Tags: rfid, convenient rfid, boston call, boston, transit cards recently, rfid privacy, muster sympathy, snow-free streets, northern fringes
 
 
 
 
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You Need An Address to Call 911

2007-08-23 09:23:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...streets It was perfect, on the other side of the tracks was the old highway (which I knew the hotel was on) running parallel to it. I was almost back to the hotel when I noticed a Lexus lying very awkwardly in a ditch. At first, I thought it was a runaway car that crashed. It could only be seen from the tracks and I began to worry that...
 
Tags: tracks, train tracks, railroad tracks, rail road tracks, hotel, address, road, expensive car, imperfect information
 
 
 
 
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Passport Fraud

2008-01-08 13:59:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...streets of South America, NBC documented the sale of stolen and doctored passports, and travel papers prized by terrorists: genuine passports issued under false names. For a few thousand dollars, an undercover investigator was able to purchase several entirely new identities from organized criminal networks with access to corrupt government...
 
Tags: passports, fraudulent passports, genuine passports, venezuelan passports, investigator, corrupt government employees, undercover investigator, passport fraud worldwide, travel widely
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...streets and banlieues, can be reconfigured in situ into a neutralizing force when crowds do become riotous; and 7) conversely, figure out how one could, through spatial manipulation, inflame a crowd, even a very small one, to set in motion a series of events that culminates into a full scale Revolution or just your average everyday Southeast...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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Viewpoint Two: The recession wont affect security folks

2008-02-13 12:51:37 by Paul Stamp in Security & Risk Management
 
...streets looking for jobs than other disciplines
 
Tags: security, security folks, majority, business, vast majority, business justification, streamline process, contractual requirements, affect
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...streets with good lighting. Being safe online is really no different than being safe in the real world. Yet, online, people have a tendency to move toward one of two extremestrusting everything they read and receive or becoming suspicious and essentially refusing to engage in anything online. Maybe its because online threats use scary...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #17

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2008-02-04 05:34:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...streets What preparations did you make prior to the present situation? Based on the supplies your safe houses currently have, how long can staff hibernate? Landline and mobile phone services have been disrupted. How will hibernating staff members communicate? Share your thoughts by clicking on COMMENTS below
 
Tags: african country, country, mobile phone services, safe houses, peaceful anti-government, civil war, play button, staff, comments
 
 
 
 
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Fears that Bhutto assassination will further destabilize Pakistan and the region

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2007-12-29 17:45:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...streets all over Pakistan since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. We are paying particular close attention since we were contacted by a client last week to provide an executive protection team to accompany their executives to the troubled country in the New Year There are many theories floating around as to who is responsible for the...
 
Tags: bhutto, abundant knowledge, knowledge, assassination, pakistan, local knowledge, executive protection team, benazir bhutto, political scene
 
 
 
 
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The Moo Security through Sacredness

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2007-08-29 04:30:13 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...streets of my hometown freely and they are unharmed because they are sacred. By being sacred, cow is the most secure animal over here Security function is considered as an extension of IT, it is an overhead of an overhead - it is not sacred. Security function usually is the foremost to feel the pinch due to IT budget cut. A good way to make...
 
Tags: cow, cow roams, security function, dried dung cake, secure animal, dung, animal, india, secure
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...streets of Queens and spent his spare time checking pay phones for quarters. He had no hope of instigating a terrorist plot of the magnitude of the alleged attack on JFK -- until he received the help of a federal informant known only as "Source," a convicted drug dealer who was cooperating with federal agents to get his sentence reduced....
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents