The FBI has demanded that all new homes built starting this year have a rear entrance with a special lock. The homeowner will have the key… but so will the FBI. They state that homeowners can be confident of this key not getting stolen or copied by nefarious criminals. Wait – what? Is this true? […]
Cyber attack attribution has long been a thorny problem. It is difficult to develop norms of international cyber behavior if attackers can hide behind plausible deniability. Microsoft recently proposed an independent international committee of experts to ascribe responsibility. The Kaspersky paper, however, questions whether absolute attribution is even possible. The paper, written by researchers Brian […]
Following in Edward Snowden’s footsteps, yet another NSA contractor has leaked highly classified trade secrets and government information. My question to you: Are we really all that surprised? What’s most alarming is that even if the NSA had the best security measures in the world, what does this say about the our overall state of […]
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