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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-30
: An Alan Moore Poem http://t.co/BoaZekBS # Dear @btcare @wazzer_bt : You might want to _reach out_ to @runasand and fix your internal bureaucracy issues to enable her DSL #torproject # You see @btcare @wazzer_bt – @runasand is part of a team who do good things for internet privacy and this would be good karma…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-29
@DrJennyWoods @SciencePunk # … think of it as someone learning how to hotwire a kind of car that few people possess. Impt to be aware. # : "Chinese Cyberwarriors in your Chips?" (http://t.co/lFQeyYt9 at Computerworld) #FPGAbackdoor http://t.co/s0zLBjvF # @DrJennyWoods Writeup now at Computerworld: http://t.co/lFQeyYt9 cc: @SciencePunk # : If you want to follow the #Cambridge…
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Google Apps receives #ISO27001 security certification – ComputerworldUK.com
Read more, read everything at Google Apps receives ISO 27001 security certification – ComputerworldUK.com. UPDATE: The Google Announcement arrives! My commentary for the above, in full: ISO27001 is good to see stamped upon a vendor’s product and business processes – however it is emphatically not a “seal of security approval” – not at all. The…
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When Security Geeks Get Snarky
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4030746: My father would be saying stuff about knocking your heads together, sort of thing. jsprinkles 16 hours ago | link I’m respectful of your qualifications, but annoyed when you use your credentials without qualification. A paranoid man might assume your comments are strategically placed to benefit parties you’re aligned with, based on how little…
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The importance of making and testing backups. And the equal importance of quality product.
How Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice, Once on Accident, Again on purpose.
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Thermite would be better and more assured:
Smoke-belching flash drive self-destructs on command • The Register.
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“To Profile or Not to Profile?” # Critical reading as the UK Government enables data-trawling apparatus
Sam Harris: I recently wrote two articles in defense of “profiling” in the context of airline security (1 & 2), arguing that the TSA should stop doing secondary screenings of people who stand no reasonable chance of being Muslim jihadists. I knew this proposal would be controversial, but I seriously underestimated how inflamed the response…
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#PennyArcade: Gay muslims plant a dirty bomb inside the Internet
. And yes, I can read acronyms.
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If you want to follow the #Cambridge #FPGAbackdoor story hype the most effective search is …
https://twitter.com/#!/search/sps32 Sergei Skorobogatov’s username makes a decent search term since it’s embedded in the URL. Also MeFi suggests that the FPGA referenced in the associated AES-key-sniffing article may be the “Actel/Microsemi ProASIC3 (P60)” – cited as “A****/M******** P******* (P**)” in that paper. This may or may not be the backdoored chip.