Some folk have asked me for more details about the DigiNotar breach after my brief appearance on Al Jazeera this morning. So here are the notes I prepared for the segment. Links at the bottom. Background web security certificates are digital IDs issued by companies entrusted with making sure they are given to the right … Read more
Further to my rant yesterday about digital rights management, my friend Mark tells me that getting around the Coldplay X&Y copy protection is easy — just rip it on a Mac. He’s right, at least for me: Works like a dream, after no joy at all on two ThinkPads. This may not be true with … Read more
Ok, not the question on the tip of your tongue, but bear with me. Geoencryption, or geo-encryption, boils down to: How about if you could only access data when you’re at a certain spot? It’s not a new idea: the brains behind it, Dorothy Denning, a veteran of cryptology has been talking about it for … Read more
A bank in Chicago has banned use of cellphones in five of its branches, hoping to prevent the bad guys from communicating with each other during a robbery, according to UPI: “We ban cell phone use in the lobby because you don’t know what people are doing,” Ralph Oster, a senior vice president [of the … Read more
I started writing about phishing a long time ago, it seems now. It must be at least two years, I think, maybe more. Then it seemed a very obscure activity, and I can recall one editor being less than impressed with the whole issue. Now it’s bigger than even I thought it might be. [Insert … Read more