http://bruce-schneier.livejournal.com/1211785.html

Edward Snowden broke the law by releasing classified information. This isn't under debate; it's something everyone with a security clearance knows. It's written in plain English on the documents you have to sign when you get a ( Read more... )

User passwords, particularly on Unix/Linus servers, are stored in a single file. The user name is typically stored in clear text, then the password is run through an encryption algorithm, usually with a value called a salt added to the password. But the salt is not always added, which makes passwords more vulnerable. One method of attacking such ( Read more... )

I picked up this interesting bit of tid from Bruce Schneier's blog, actually his LJ feed from his blog:

The term "elite panic" was coined by Caron Chess and Lee Clarke of Rutgers. From the beginning of the field in the 1950s to the present, the major sociologists of disaster -- Charles Fritz, Enrico Quarantelli, Kathleen Tierney, and Lee Clarke ( Read more... )

Bruce Schneier collected many links of interest on the issue. Included are some t-shirts, I wouldn't mind having a couple of them and may be placing an order ( Read more... )

Bruce Schneier is an internationally-recognized expert in cryptography and computer security. He has an interesting proposal. First, you get a whole-disk encryption program and encrypt the entire disk. You create a normal key that you would remember. Then you create a massively random key: pound on the keyboard for a few minutes. Email the ( Read more... )

Yep, your tax dollars hard at work ( Read more... )

http://economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9867324

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/10/the_economist_o_1.html

Some interesting personal security implications.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/20/070820fa_fact_owen?printable=truehttp://www.

His premise is that they (California) have security backwards and are arguing that the machines are secure until they're proven not to be, then a patch makes them all better until they are once-again compromised. The full story is that the Californian In Charge of Voting Machine Stuff, after having a hasty report published proving that the ( Read more... )

http://www.schneier.com/interview-hawley.html