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by Alec Muffett

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    • A Primer for End-to-End Encryption
    • A “Duck Test” for End-to-End Secure Messaging
    • Why Privacy will always be more impactful than Safety
    • Muffett on Passwords
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  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-31

    2012/07/31 06:00:00 BST

    : Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco # MUST-READ analysis by somebody who gets it http://t.co/sxAKp20l # : Hey Trusted Computing / Security Label Geeks – if you like XMPP then read this: "XEP-0314: Security Labels in PubSub" http://t.co/eo7etnsG # # Let me take you by the hand and lead you through…

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  • There’s Free (as in Beer) and Free (as in Speech) but the lesser-known third option is …

    2012/07/30 23:21:04 BST

    I was out to dinner with Whit Diffie and @adriana872 at the weekend, and Whit quoted something that he’d heard somewhere in the upper echelons of Sun: There’s Free (as in Beer) and Free (as in Speech) but the lesser-known third option is Free (as in Puppies) That’s where you give someone something for free…

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    fun opensource
  • Show us the source code of your patent-pending app #Wickr, else you smell like #security snake-oil /cc #torproject

    2012/07/30 23:01:30 BST

    Wickr was founded in San Francisco, California by a team of security and privacy experts. Our patent-pending technology brings sophisticated security and privacy to everybody. Mission The Internet is forever. Your private communications don’t need to be. Wickr’s mission is to provide secure communications that Leave No Trace. People are being tracked online and their…

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    security
  • Google Alerts “We Take Security Seriously” :: Ubisoft’s DRM #vulnerability puts users at serious #security risk #BREAKING

    2012/07/30 22:48:21 BST

    Ubisoft’s UPlay Includes Security Exploit You Need to Remove Immediately Paying customers frustrated and angry: 99%. Pirates thwarted: 0%. I’d say that about sums up Ubisoft’s score when it comes to the studio’s DRM tech and PC gaming, particularly with this latest bit of news: Cyber experts say Ubisoft’s mandatory UPlay network features “really bad,…

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    security we take security seriously
  • Phantom Railings – A WWII installation art / memorial near Euston

    2012/07/30 19:27:18 BST

    Phantom railings: a public art intervention that plays on London’s wartime memories “Phantom railings” is an interactive sound sculpture that uses the movements of pedestrians to evoke the ghost of a lost iron fence. The site of the intervention is a garden in Bloomsbury, whose railings were removed as part of the 1940s war effort…

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    art fun
  • Google Alerts “We Take Security Seriously” / “Military Grade” / “E-Voting” #thisshouldbefun #prediction

    2012/07/30 17:51:59 BST

    Is your vote secure? Many digital systems lack paper backups Officials from companies pioneering Internet voting disagree. “We take security issues extremely seriously,” says Lori Steele, chief executive officer of Everyone Counts, a San Diego-based Internet voting company that provides services in Colorado, Utah, Washington, Florida, and Illinois. “We use military-grade encryption and feel ours…

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    security we take security seriously
  • Hey Trusted Computing / Security Label Geeks – if you like XMPP then read this: “XEP-0314: Security Labels in PubSub”

    2012/07/30 10:00:20 BST

    From a colleague who’s just had this posted on xmpp.org and is working with realtime pubsub. XEP-0314: Security Labels in PubSub. Abstract: This specification defines an extension to XEP-0258 (Security Labels) to allow for the use of security labels in XEP-0060 (Publish-Subscribe). This document describes how security label metadata can be applied to the various…

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    opensource security social networking
  • Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco # MUST-READ analysis by somebody who gets it

    2012/07/30 09:16:43 BST

    Troy Hunt: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco.

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    fun security
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-30

    2012/07/30 06:00:00 BST

    profound thunder over home. # : Better than a reusable coffee cup: An edible coffee cup made out of a cookie | Grist http://t.co/IkFUnPzG # Currently hailing in Hartley Wintney, amongst the rain and thunder. Welcome to the Olympics – Faithless nailed it: http://t.co/9tFu1d6d # …and with a faint whooshing noise it suddenly stops. #

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  • Better than a reusable coffee cup: An edible coffee cup made out of a cookie | Grist

    2012/07/29 14:56:45 BST

    Better than a reusable coffee cup: An edible coffee cup made out of a cookie | Grist.

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    food
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-07-29

    2012/07/29 06:00:00 BST

    @chrisgerhard Is there more lycra amongst the audience than in the race? # @chrisgerhard …and bang goes the credibility of any future claim that cyclists are not an 'army' # Wondering if the NeXT Cube on Tim's desk last night was the *real* http://t.co/aMAXSrNo or if it was just a stand-in ? # @mePadraigReidy Don't…

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  • Skype denies system upgrade enables in-call spying # Doesn’t matter any more – and I also don’t believe them

    2012/07/28 10:59:49 BST

    Sorry guys, nobody’s going to believe you now, even if your denial is true; in the mid/late-2000s I spoke to some Skype staffers who told me off-the-record that there was an internal project to provide law-enforcement access on demand – for voice, specifically, and beyond the usual “intercept it at the POTS” manoeuvre. But it…

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    security social networking
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