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Bob Toxen:
Linux Security: Reflections on 2002
“
The current interest of everyone and his brother in forensics and honeypots will die down. For other than those doing serious research in computer security, I find its only value is demonstrating to management that insecure systems will be breached.
”
History:
A Study of the ARPANET TCP/IP Digest
and of the Role of Online Communication
in the Transition from the ARPANET to the Internet (Ronda Hauben, Columbia University)
Jakob Nielsen:
Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 ” Every year brings new mistakes. In 2002, several of the worst mistakes in Web design related to poor email integration. The number one mistake, however, was lack of pricing information, followed by overly literal search engines. “
Now Noble and graduate student Mark Corner have come up with a high-security system for the slothful. The system protects data by automatically scrambling it the moment users walk away, then quickly restoring it upon their return.
Called
Zero-Interaction Authentication, or ZIA, the system requires laptop owners to wear a small device or token – in this case a wristwatch equipped with a processor and short-range wireless link to communicate with the laptop. When the token moves out of range, ZIA re-encrypts information on the laptop within five seconds, before someone else can gain access to it. When the laptop detects that the token has come back within range, the system decrypts the information within six seconds.
From Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram newsletter:
Kevin Mitnick’s book, "The Art of Deception," is a good read. The missing first chapter, deleted at the last minute by the publisher, is on the Internet. The chapter talks about Mitnick’s life as a hacker and a fugitive, and his arrest and trial. It’s very interesting reading.
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,56187,00.html>
<http://littlegreenguy.fateback.com/chapter1/Chapter%201%20-%20Banned%20Edition.doc>
The Economist:
The race to computerise biology
(A layman’s introduction to bioinformatics)
Google’s new toys:
“Google labs just released for your pleasure, some new toys to play with. The first is Google’s Viewer, just type a few words to see a fully working preview of the web site. Another new idea: Google’s Webquotes, View search results with quotes about them from other sites, and the last one is Google’s Froogle, which aims to be the world’s largest catalog.”
[Slashdot]
www.knowngoods.org: “Basically, the MD5, SHA-1, and file sizes for executables on common systems were thrown into a -very- simple database.”
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