(It just smells different!)
Anyone remember the Cypherpunk movement?
Those were the people who invented anonymous remailers, were the first to deploy PGP on a wider scale and were generally a crypto-political movement to establish cryptography (and privacy) in the then nascent public Internet.
(This one would almost be worth a separate category on IT Security Link, called "Politics".)
The Whirlygig RNG. If Felix von Leitner considers building a batch (in German language) then there must be value in it.
Now when will we see quality random generators in consumer grade laptops...
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon have developed a way to semi-automatically develop exploits from patches (cf. story on SecurityFocus).
Members of the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC) have published the fingerprint of Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, along with a video on how to make fa
CSO Magazine has a column that's titled What Would You Do With an Extra 10 Percent in Your Budget?
There's an easy answer to this. Use it for an awareness initiative. Oh, and with an extra 20%? Use it for an awareness initiative. An extra 50%? Now you're talking!
There's two reasons for this.
Girl With a One Track Mind, the blog by Zoe Margolis, may seem like an unlikely entry for an IT Security blog.
But not for long!
Two years after they dissolved their renowned National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, the UK police will now form a new Police Central E-crime Unit.
Thank you, Gordon. God Save the Queen!
It was in the news... The German, Federal Constitutional Court had to decide on the legitimacy of "state sponsored hacking" - called "Onlinedurchsuchung" (electronic search and seizure) by its proponents - in the context of criminal investigations.
