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My Background I am a computer security professional with a special interest in cryptography. I am also a deeply religious guy, with a strong affinity towards my beliefs. This article is to put out my views about privacy from a...
A commercial spyware product is now available for Android. While it can't record conversations, it does log the numbers of all incoming and outgoing calls and send them to a logging server. The malware also continuously...
In the above “60 Minutes” video, correspondent Steve Kroft spoke with former and current US government officials and private-sector security about the nation’s vulnerability to cyber attack. Even then, before anyone was...
Coiffure options: 'Ponytail', 'Bald' or 'Cyborg' Good news for devotees of ponytailed crypto guru of all our hearts Bruce Schneier: it's now possible to buy an officially endorsed "Bruce Schneier action figure". The action...
In her article, Joanna Rutkowska discussed how a full disk encryption (by means of TrueCrypt in particular but can also be applicable to DiskCryptor and PGP WDE) can be compromised by infecting its bootloader.
It's hard work being prey. Watch the birds at a feeder. They're constantly on alert, and will fly away from food — from easy nutrition — at the slightest movement or sound. Given that I've never, ever seen a bird plucked from a...
I'm beginning to think that fears about cloud security are overblown. The reason: an intellectual framework is already in place for protecting data, applications, and connections. It's called encryption. What's evolving now,...
A month ago, ThatsMyFace.com approached me about making a Bruce Schneier action figure. It's $100. I'd like to be able to say something like "half the proceeds are going to EPIC and EFF," but they're not. That's the price for...
The revised Google Books settlement agreement may quiet international opponents, but it still gives Google a monopoly on commercializing out-of-print books where the copyrights are unclaimed and fails to protect consumer...
Bruce Schneier has up another essay well worth reading. It doesn’t contain much that he hasn’t already said, but it does a good job of tying things together. And it makes a point I’m afraid is lost on all the Republicans...
