Bruce Schneier on the Predator drone unencrypted video snafu: Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. Read through to the end; Schneier makes a good point about how the key management requirements of the NSAs Cold War era encryption schemes are limiting their use in today’s military [...]
Intriguing: Airlock allows your Mac to lock itself, plain and simple. Using your iPhone or iPod Touch, Bluetooth, and a smidgen of pixie dust, Airlock determines whether you’re near your computer.
Bruce Schneier points to a paper that explains why terrorism doesn’t work. I’ve always wondered why people think that terrorists are out to kill everyone. From Schneier’s post: People tend to infer the motives — and also the disposition – of someone who performs an action based on the effects of his actions, and not [...]
I’ve been holding off posting about the “Bomb Scare” in Boston yesterday because I wanted to see what Bruce Schneier would say about it. Most of the time he articulates my position on these sorts of things much better than I could. Schneier just posted his reaction. The first sentence of his post is “The [...]