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by Alec Muffett

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    • 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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  • NASA’s Mars YouTube Videos taken offline by bogus copyright claims and automated police software #curiosity /cc @OpenRightsGroup

    2012/08/07 06:53:18 BST

    But NASA couldn’t prepare for everything. An hour or so after Curiosity’s 1.31 a.m. EST landing in Gale Crater, I noticed that the space agency’s main YouTube channel had posted a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. Its title was in an uncharacteristic but completely justified all caps: “NASA LANDS CAR-SIZE ROVER BESIDE MARTIAN MOUNTAIN.” When

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    censorship and interception politics and law security
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-08-07

    2012/08/07 06:00:00 BST

    : Next time someone cites "military grade encryption", this is your response: #security http://t.co/PFxsAPIa # @ObscenityLawyer Is it legal to drive cars but illegal to photograph them? Probably … # It's the hover-over on today's #XKCD which teaches a very subtle but important lesson. # oooooooookay, that's thunder. distant but powerful. #kaboom # : Light

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  • Infiltrate the Vault: Security Analysis and Decryption of Lion Full Disk Encryption (PDF) #DONOTPANIC #NOTBROKENYET

    2012/08/06 16:03:49 BST

    http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/374.pdf – but a few bugs were found and fixed by Apple

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    hardware security
  • Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Analysis of FileVault 2 (Apple’s full disk encryption)

    2012/08/06 16:01:33 BST

    With the launch of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple has introduced a volume encryption mechanism known as FileVault 2. During the past year Joachim Metz, Felix Grobert and I have been analysing this encryption mechanism. We have identified most of the components in FileVault 2’s architecture and we have also built an open source

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    hardware security
  • Next time someone cites “military grade encryption”, this is your response: #security

    2012/08/06 07:27:23 BST

    RT @econmobile: This message will self-destruct econ.st/Nc2vID << “Military grade encryption”? Navajo or Enigma? #wickr — Saso Virag (@VS_) August 6, 2012 Navajo or Enigma?

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    security
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-08-06

    2012/08/06 06:00:00 BST

    @JohnAvlon Hi! Just read your piece in the DB. Would be fascinated to know what this "Digital Pearl Harbour" you speak of might look like? # : Google Alerts "We (Should) Take Security Seriously" :: @TheDailyBeast: "Digital Pearl Harbour" – Regulate Security! http://t.co/m3rYeykx # : Why I Don't Use Bing Maps – YouTube http://t.co/gE7oCYp1 #

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  • Isn’t this the same as (say) compelling people to gamble with their money just “to keep it moving” ?

    2012/08/05 21:37:01 BST

    The investment strike is one the government would do well to bust The private sector’s refusal to invest ensures that household and business suffer inflation, while the economy stagnates The British economic slump has now lasted four years, and output is still 4.5% below the previous peak level. The decline in gross fixed capital formation

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    miscellaneous ranting politics and law
  • BBC News – ‘Bradley Wiggins effect’ warning to motorists # Cycling is a ‘craze’?

    2012/08/05 21:13:50 BST

    The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics took riders from the Mall, through west London, out to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill. via BBC News – ‘Bradley Wiggins effect’ warning to motorists.

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    cycling
  • Why I Don’t Use Bing Maps – YouTube

    2012/08/05 12:01:10 BST

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    miscellaneous ranting
  • Google Alerts “We (Should) Take Security Seriously” :: @TheDailyBeast: “Digital Pearl Harbour” – Regulate Security!

    2012/08/05 09:30:47 BST

    Hello, I’m a journalist and have fallen for the: something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it – cyberfallacy. Daily Beast, John Avlon […] It’s hard to tell whether this is just lazy or malevolent, but small-government advocates of gridlock are going to have a hard time explaining to people on

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    security we take security seriously
  • Twitter Updates for 2012-08-05

    2012/08/05 06:00:00 BST

    : Remembering Elementary School http://t.co/KW672phW # @cbetta It just invalidates the human. Or the education system in which they grew up. /cc @kevinmarks # @cbetta Good small car: Skoda Fabia or Octavia, depending on size requirements. It's the VW parts bin, get the 1.9 Turbodiesel. # @cbetta Had mine ~10yrs now, zero breakdowns, ~80,000 miles.

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  • Azure VMs contain amusing capabilities; WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? /HT @GeoffArnold @seclectech

    2012/08/04 23:39:20 BST

    There is a Python agent inside the Azure VMs that communicates over TCP/80 and has fun methods like DeleteRootPassword & Deprovision — Matt Franz (@seclectech) August 4, 2012 Another fun fact Azure VM “endpoints” (very primitive security groups) only allow you to specify TCP and UDP ports. — Matt Franz (@seclectech) August 4, 2012 OK,

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    cloud security
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