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Tag Archives: Security
Data Loss
Up until Monday, we hadn’t had any of our data lost by the government (as far as we knew). We shouldn’t have been one of the 25 million lost due to being child benefit claimants, or one of the many other breaches.
Some of the breaches are potentially very serious should it fall into the wrong [...]
Mythbusters Gagged
Adam Savage, of the excellent ‘Mythbusters’ programme(*) reports that they were going to do a segment on RFID chips only to have the lawyers descend from Visa, American Express etc.
Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made [...]
Posted in Cryptography Also tagged Adam Savage, Cryptography, Law, Mythbusters, RFID, Stupid Security, Television, Video 1 Comment
Secrets
Typical.
You wait ages for a set of secret documents to be left on public transport, then two show up at once….
Stupid Security
Privacy International has opened up nominations for the ‘Stupid Security Awards 2006′.
The Stupid Security Awards is an open competition run by Privacy International to discover the world’s most pointless, intrusive, annoying and self-serving security measures. The awards aim to highlight the absurdities of the security industry. The awards were first staged in 2003 and attracted [...]
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