Airport insecurity
I am thinking a lot about security now, since a discussion last week on security in the 2.0 Enterprise – where the conclusion was that we need to get away from perimeter security and over towards...
View ArticleRisky analysis
Bruce Sterling Schneier has a good article on the dangers of risk analysis when estimating software projects – and, by extension, estimating the risk of terrorist attacks. It is the everyday risks that...
View ArticleNotes from Cory Doctorow talk in Oslo
Cory was here to launch the (New) Norwegian version of his book Little Brother, but, of course, this meeting is not as much about the book as about issues of intellectual property, DRM, legislation...
View ArticleComputer security is about finding front doors
This excellent little piece in Wired tells about a security researchers who could spy on corporate meetings by simply scanning for conference phones with “automatic accept” configured: Using a program...
View ArticleNorwegian Data Inspectorate outlaws Google App use
In a letter (reported at digi.no) to the Narvik Municipality (which has started to use Google Mail and other cloud-based applications, effectively putting much of its infrastructure in the Cloud) the...
View ArticlePeter G. Neumann in New York Times
Peter G. Neumann is one of my heroes – a computer science and security expert with a sense of humor (his dry comments on the Risks Digest are legendary), inventive solutions to problems (he once built...
View ArticleSmartHelp – geolocation for crisis situations
I am on the board of SmartHelp – a platform for crisis communication for emergency services (or, indeed, for any company that needs to locate its assets or employees in a hurry). The platform has been...
View ArticleNotes from ACM Webinar on blockchain (etc.)
The Next Radical Internet Transformation: How Blockchain Technology is Transforming Business, Governments, Computing, and Security Models Speaker: Mark Mueller-Eberstein, CEO & Founder at Adgetec...
View ArticleOn videoconferencing and security
Picture: Zoom Yesterday began with a message from a business executive who was concerned with the security of Zoom, the video conferencing platform that many companies (and universities) have landed...
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