Articles related to computer security, physical security, and similar things.
This does look like a problem. Here’s an idea for an easy solution, though. In the address bar, the browser could display both the address (as it does now) and the script name. Unicode is split up into different well-defined sections for different language scripts, so this shouldn’t be very difficult to implement. In the …
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Haven’t they ever heard the old saying, “beware of geeks attempting grift”?
Just prior to the Christmas Underwear Bomber, the big security scandal was how the Predator drones don’t use encryption on their video feeds, and militants were using cheap off-the-shelf software to intercept that data. But Bruce Schneier points out the reasons for that, and why encrypting this data is likely to cause more problems than …
Although this article hits the nail right on the head, I don’t expect Obama or anyone else to make any changes — except, perhaps, banning more ridiculous things (as the TSA has already done — correction, the restrictions have apparently been eased now). Even if Obama wanted to (which he might), he’d face huge political …
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I wonder what they’ll ban this time? Syringes? Pillows? Pants?