I almost let this topic go by, but news came today that keeps it from being completely stale.....


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Sometimes schneier reads more like an absurdist-humor blog than a security-issues blog. Today he linked to the tragic tale of an artist unable to ship his empty (but labeled) containers ( Read more... )

Those of us in the Great Lakes states can easily forget that we're actually living in border states -- Canada is just across the lake.

With that in mind, I was interested to learn that not only will passports be required (rather than just drivers license and birth certificate) to cross the Canada border by air starting in 2007, and by land ( Read more... )

You've just gotta love MIT.

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

Abstract:Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250, ( Read more... )

mephron tells us that gaming books are subject to confiscation on the New York Waterway ferry. (Unless you fight it, of course.)

How long until we get to return to sanity in this country?

Lately I've been really amazed at how little spam makes it to my inbox. (Knock on wood...) I use a Bayesian filter, bogofilter, plus some additional filtering to get rid of virus attachments and a particular spammer that's good at getting around Bayesian filters (though I think my filter is finally getting trained well enough on those ( Read more... )

Found at Daily Kos....

George W. Bush's concessions to terrorists since 9/11:

1. Keeping the citizenry in a state of fear
   
2. Making the citizenry less free
   
3. Starting an ill-conceived holy war
   
4. Alienating our country from its allies
   
5. Allowing Osama bin Laden to remain at large
   
6. Letting the Saudis off the hook for their role in terrorism
   
7. Engineering the ( Read more... )