Monthly Archives: August 2007

A/V Research on Detecting File Infections Was a Waste Time?

This is really interesting reading: invisiblethings’ blog: Tricky Tricks. Joanna Rutkowska says: … So, do I want to say that all those years of A/V research on detecting file infections was a waste time? I’m afraid that is exactly what … Continue reading

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The Ethics of Perfection

Interesting blog post from Steve Lipner: The Security Development Lifecycle : The Ethics of Perfection. He says in conclusion: What does all this have to do with ethics?  Well, I think that given the choice between shipping perfectly secure software (whatever … Continue reading

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Bruce Schneier’s DefCon 15 LED Speaker Badge on eBay Auction

Bruce Schneier’s DefCon 15 Speaker Badge can be bought on eBay auction.  The badge contains a programmable LED with up to 14 characters.  It uses two Li batteries (included), and was designed by Joe Grand. If you wish it, hurry … Continue reading

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Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes It

This looks like true story, but might be Google - Yahoo battle. Anyway, it is nice to read story about Google at Yahoo: Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it – Yahoo! News. It says: Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were … Continue reading

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NSA Pushes Elliptic-Curve Cryptography to Secure Small Devices and Lend Support to Interoperable Communication Networks

Although the cryptographic security standards used in public-key infrastructures, RSA and Diffie-Hellman, have not been cracked, they were introduced in the 1970s and there is growing concern that the standards may soon be outdated. Consequently, the National Security Agency wants … Continue reading

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