Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...
...who is the secure-est browser of them all? The answer may surprise you...
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...who is the secure-est browser of them all? The answer may surprise you...
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Posted by Glyn Moody at 4:20 pm 0 comments
Labels: chrome, chromium, economics of security, Firefox, internet explorer, open enterprise, safari, sandbox
Ha! Brilliant:I’ve been asked to say a few words about the disappearance of a computer hard drive containing the personal details of about 100,000 of the Armed Forces. The information was being held by EDS, which is the Ministry of Defence’s main IT contractor.
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I can confirm the disk was not encrypted. We have not[h]ing to hide from whoever stole it, and therefore nothing to fear.
Posted by Glyn Moody at 9:06 am 2 comments
Labels: economics of security, eds, fear, ministry of defence, Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO
airport security has to make a choice. If something is dangerous, treat it as dangerous and treat anyone who tries to bring it on as potentially dangerous. If it's not dangerous, then stop trying to keep it off airplanes. Trying to have it both ways just distracts the screeners from actually making us safer.
Read the whole thing - it says it all.
Posted by Glyn Moody at 7:55 pm 2 comments
Labels: airports, bruce schneier, economics of security, security theatre
Online anonymity is undoubtedly a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it ensures that people can express their opinions freely, but on the other it allows some to abuse that freedom by posting untrue, abusive or inflammatory material. So far, a kind of pragmatic balance has been struck between the two competing demands for total anonymity and total traceability. But according to this report, some are pushing for a shift towards traceability....
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Posted by Glyn Moody at 11:22 am 0 comments
Labels: anonymity, china, economics of security, open enterprise, steve bellovin, traceability
Posted by Glyn Moody at 11:08 am 0 comments
Labels: activex, command line, economics of security, Firefox, open enterprise, ubiquity
Posted by Glyn Moody at 4:38 pm 0 comments
Labels: bots, economics of security, Microsoft, open enterprise, ross anderson, spam, trojans, viruses, Windows
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