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[The Quonset Hut] Army Regulation 25-1: Ask and ye shall receive. A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Loose Lips Sink Ships where I compared the journalistic practices of today (in regards to secrecy) to the practices during World War II. Today’s journalist includes bloggers - who post stories and information which can be read worldwide.

[Vastly Important Notes] EPIC report is not so good: I don't get too worked up about this mistake because even though it's much harder to snoop ISO/14443 than RFID, the vulnerabilities are of the same type. Still, it doesn't help EPIC's credibility to conflate the two standards, especially since exactly this mistake was the center of much teeth-gnashing last month. The real answer is to eventually move to contactless cards with strong cryptography. 

[Ken Hagler's Radio Weblog] Ken Hagler's Radio Weblog: So, is it finally going the right way with the development of Freenet? Maybe not, since they seem reluctant to provide real data and rather rely on security through obfuscation, and then there is still the problem of their general inability in regard to pooling human resources, which, for any OSS project, is of the utmost importance." --- Obviously, the article submitter has his own feelings on Freenet, but notwithstanding that, what's the latest scuttlebutt from within the Freenet crowd? [Slashdot] [Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free Speech, Cryptography)]

[Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: encryption: This page shows goodies from the web about encryption. To contribute, just make a post to your blog about encryption and include the link below. More Info »

[Stapleton-gray.com] Surpriv: RFID Surveillance and Privacy: If passed into law, the act would prohibit California state-, county- or municipality-issued ID cards from containing radio frequency identification (or any contactless integrated circuit). Tollway transponders would be exempt from the law, as would RFID devices used to track inmates and patients in mental institutions and children in hospitals operated by the state or by a county or municipal government. Senator Simitian says further exceptions or changes might be made to the bill as it moves through the assembly, but he is happy about its movement through the state senate.

[Reppel.co.uk] Technologies: 'Encryption is for data at rest, not just in transit'.: But in most companies today, data is almost always transferred on switched networks and thus is transferred from point to point - with no visibility of that data by other network-attached devices. The only way to circumvent this is for the hacker to load his sniffer program onto the actual server itself, but even in this scenario, there are simpler ways to access the data directly.

[Lawtechguru.com] LAWTECH GURU BLOG by Jeff Beard: Privacy & Security Archives: In any event, it's good to know there's another antispyware option with potential, hopefully one which will also play nice with Microsoft's operating systems and applications. I found it interesting that the CNET News.com article referenced above included this tidbit: "She [Amy Carroll, director of product management for Microsoft's Security, Business and Technology unit] pointed to a compatibility issue that Microsoft experienced just after the launch of Windows XP Service Pack 2 as partially caused by a hidden spyware application." So it's probably safe to say that Microsoft is attempting to offer a win-win for both their efforts as well as those of their customers. Like antivirus solutions, antispyware needs regular updating for detecting and removing new malware.

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