Setting the default to dangerous doesn't work in any other industry. |
Sounds like a protection racket, doesn't it? ... It is a protection racket. |
The administration is deliberately choosing a less secure technology without justification. If there were a good reason to choose that technology, then it might make sense. But there isn't. |
The end result is that insecure software is common, |
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. |
The real threat is fraud due to impersonation, and the tactics of impersonation will change in response to the defenses. Two-factor authentication will force criminals to modify their tactics, that's all. In the long term, all it does is move the bad guys to a new tactic. |
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. |
The way to fix this is we need a better ability to know where to look. It's the drinking out of the fire hose problem. Turning up the fire hose isn't going to help. |
The years of the military being at the leading edge of technology are gone because it moves so fast. In the real world, the rise of technology means that everyone has access to the exact same stuff. The limitations are basically just money. He (bin Laden) definitely has more money than the average terrorist. |
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. |
There's not really any meat to it, |
There's one important aspect of this fingerprint that the article did not talk about: how easy is it to forge? Can someone analyze 100 images from a given camera, and then doctor a pre-existing picture so that it appeared to come from that camera? |
They're saying, 'We use this impressive lock on our screen door. Nobody's going to pick it.' Instead, they're going to take a rock and scissors and cut out the screen, |
Using current mathematics and technology, it is impossible to even consider factoring a 1024-bit number. I'm not willing to make any hard predictions about tomorrow. |
We all think of the movie scenarios - the kinds of things that we would expect to see in a movie plot. Terrorists sneaking a bomb into the Super Bowl, for example. The problem is, terrorists don't care. They don't care whether it's a football game or an airport or a restaurant or a movie theater. It doesn't matter to them. |