Shostack + Friends Blog Archive

 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-27

Congratulations to the Egyptian people for claiming the right to vote for their President! # The ACLU of WA is looking for a technology & liberty director http://t.co/sUAFuDq7 # Things that shod not surprise me: Koalas smell like eucalyptus. # Powered by Twitter Tools

 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20

RT @votescannell Mother of 3 Arrested for Taking Pictures of Tourist Attraction at Airport http://t.co/Id8TKH9r // I feel safer already. # Freedom gropes for all @seatac! /cc @tsastatus. # RT @ashk4n WiFi Pineapple lets anyone with $90 to "compromise the sh*t out of anyone using WiFi in the area" http://t.co/TnR3n56k #armsrace # Great question for […]

 

My AusCert Gala talk

At AusCert, I had the privilege to share a the gala dinner stage with LaserMan and Axis of Awesome, and talk about a few security lessons from Star Wars. I forgot to mention onstage that I’ve actually illustrated all eight of the Saltzer and Schroeder principles, and collected them up as a single page. That […]

 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13

RT @Ellen_CK It appears that putting a contest in one's internal newsletter leads to people actually reading it #SEingmycoworkers # RT @bfist I like my risk like I like my steak << with blue cheese sauce? # RT @451wendy "Q: How many of the Fortune 500 are hacked right now? A: 500." http://t.co/I090fJmp <- Lovely […]

 

Why Sharing Raw Data is Important

Bob Rudis has a nice post up “Off By One : The Importance Of Fact Checking Breach Reports,” in which he points out some apparent errors in the Massachusetts 2011 breach report, and also provides some graphs. Issues like this are why it’s important to release data. It enables independent error checking, but also allows […]

 

What Kip Hawley Doesn't Understand About Terrorism

Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley was on NPR a few minutes ago, opining on the 2nd panty bomber. He said two remarkable things. First, that the operators of nudatrons, who see thousands of naked people per day, would notice the bomb. Second, he didn’t understand why Al Qaeda would continue to focus on underwear bombs. […]

 

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-06

RT @netik You program in Rails? Check out Brakeman from our security team & make your code safer. http://t.co/nFPQ3cxx (go @presidentbeef!) # RT @KimZetter Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix After Public Pressure – http://t.co/EZfe7s27 # Pro tip: "Blackhat talks get lots of publicity" is not a reason *your* submission will make a […]

 

Study: More than 90% of Americans Take Action on Privacy

That’s my takeaway from a new study of 2,000 households by Consumer Reports: There are more than 150 million Americans using Facebook at this point, and that number is growing. … a new exhaustive study from Consumer Reports on social networking privacy found that 13 million American Facebook users have never touched their privacy settings. […]

 

Please Kickstart Elevation of Privilege

Jan-Tilo Kirchhoff asked on Twitter for a printer (ideally in Germany) to print up some Elevation of Privilege card sets. Deb Richardson then suggested Kickstarter. I wanted to comment, but this doesn’t fit in a tweet, so I’ll do it here. I would be totally excited for someone to Kickstarter production of Elevation of Privilege. […]