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Freakonomics, one of the…most particular blogs out there, in which everything and anything gets analyzed with tools usually used to analyze economics, there’s a very very interesting post from yesterday: Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions.
It’s a *long* interview, with several very interesting questions and even more interesting answers by Bruce…in his inimitably funny-but-ouch style, [...]

Bruce Schneier found a very, very interesting series of articles on cio.com called Who’s Stealing your passwords? Global hackers [sic] create a new online crime economy which, apart from the misuse of the word hacker (should, instead, be cracker)that has become so prevalent, is a pretty interesting and deep analysis of what malware has become [...]

So, do you remember back a couple of months ago when Microsoft decided to sneak an update on everybody, even those that had configured their computers to ask before doing any updates, without a warning? Well, the scandal is back on, because said stealth update has provoked a serious problem for users. According to SecuritiFix’s [...]

Almost two years after the Sony-BMG rootkit scandal, Sony is back on its stupid side. This time, instead of including a rootkit with a music CD, they are including a rootkit with…a security device. Yup, they sell you a fingerprint reader and part of the software that comes with it is…another Sony rootkit!
So…now, if you [...]

Well, it seems like Windows Genuine Advantage (aka, WGA) has become a disadvantage for every single XP and Vista user out there. Every computer that runs a “modern” version of Windows runs a little program that calls home and asks the WGA server(s) if the currently installed OS is “genuine” or not. If it is, [...]

Well, being as a) today is my bday and b) this is the 200th post on the blog, it had to be about something I care about…and, of course, Bruce Schneier decided to find an article about the press and how it influences our Perceptions of Risk, making us believe that the really risky stuff [...]

If you are like me and can’t stand idiocy, you’ll learn to hate the world after reading the study that Schneier found.
Social phishing is sending emails with forged headers to people, using the names of people that are part of the intended victim’s social network, trying to hang their attempt of stealing your data onto [...]

With the downtime of the old host, the move to the new host and the fact that I busted my back on friday and couldn’t get out of bed until monday, I’ve been way too inactive, both in my RSS reading and my blogging…well…time to catch up :)
First up, catching up with Bruce Schneier…he’s got [...]

As is often the case, when it comes to security stuff, I found this through Bruce Schneier’s blog.
The paper he talks about is a study by Max Abrahms, for MIT Press, called Why Terrorism Doesn’t Work (PDF). In it, the author analyzes how effective (or not) terrorist organizations are at attaining their professed political objectives. [...]

Bruce Schneier has a new essay on his blog, which should give anybody working in security a lot to think about.
In Nonsecurity Considerations in Security Decisions, Bruce talks, briefly, about what security *is*, then goes into trying to define *how* decisions about security are made. Something that jumped at me when I read it was:
At [...]