http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-11T14:50:17-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/11/open_access_to_windows_antispyware_lists_recommended.php Ed Bott has some excellent questions about and recommendations for Microsoft's anti-spyware policies (Dear Microsoft: Why Should We Trust You to Detect Spyware?).Publish the Windows AntiSpyware database. Put it on the Web. Make it searchable. Provide a description of why... 6320@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-11T14:50:17-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/05/chilling_effects_from_a_privacysecurity_bill.php C|Net News' Declan McCullagh reports on a new security/privacy law that could have a chilling effect on blogs and other small publishers (The Coming Web Security Woes).Anyone who runs a Web site with registered users and receives income from it... 6293@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-05T10:03:20-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/duty_to_prevent_disclosure_of_metadata.php Apparently there is now a lawyerly duty in New York to prevent disclosure of client confidences via metadata. Damn! That was often the most interesting part of many documents, the metadata. How else are we supposed to be able to... 6186@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-23T11:17:15-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/audible_magics_security_through_obscurity_critized.php Ed Felten rips apart the security through obscurity of CopySense, the black boxes promoted by Audible Magic to filter p2p on networks (Content Filtering and Security). CopySense boxes run general-purpose operating systems, so they are prone to security bugs that... 6185@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-23T10:49:14-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/22/california_bill_would_regulate_govt_use_of_rfid.php The LA Times has an article on a proposed state statute regulating government use of RFID for tracking people (Not Letting Chips Follow Where They May). The basic concept is probably a good idea, but I'm not really sure that... 6163@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-22T06:42:37-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/why_store_all_that_data_just_so_it_can_be_stolen.php In response to all the recent news over data theft, Ping Identity VP Eric Norlin has an op-ed in C|Net News (The Red Herring of Data Protection).This isn't really a question of data loss, data protection or data safeguarding. That,... 6147@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-21T16:22:22-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/15/yet_another_alarmist_article_about_employees_stealing_corporate_data_this_time_its_ipods.php OHMIGAWD! People are using Apple iPods to steal corporate data, so an alarmist report by "anti-fraud experts" in the Guardian tells us (Fraudsters Use iPods to Steal Company Information). We've heard this story before, but put "iPod" in the headline... 6052@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-15T08:17:43-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/10/why_didnt_someone_think_of_this_when_the_backstreet_boys_were_all_the_rage.php Furdlog points us to an amusing story on ZDNet Australia in which anti-virus software customers complain about an update to halt a virus that deleted gypsy music from its victims hard drives (Anti Gypsy-Music Virus Welcomed by Victims).Another customer was... 6000@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-10T10:27:28-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/09/granick_wants_to_know_top_ten_legal_questions_for_hackers.php Jennifer Granick, executive director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, will be attending Black Hat and Defcon in Las Vegas and will be talking about the Top Ten Legal Questions of interest to attendees. So, email... 5985@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-09T16:15:00-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/04/south_korea_hack_all_about_the_games.php I didn't get too excited about reports earlier this week that Microsoft's MSN network in South Korea had been hacked, thanks to a failure to install security vulnerability patches. See this AP report in WIRED (MSN Snared in Korean Booby-Trap).... 5910@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-04T07:35:46-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/31/felten_on_dissecting_the_witty_worm.php Over on the newly-redesigned Freedom to Tinker, Ed Felten writes a nice, readable-by-the-layman summary of a paper dissecting the Witty Worm by (Dissecting the Witty Worm).This is not a world-changing paper, but it is a great example of what skilled... 5860@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-31T19:43:26-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/31/report_diebold_optiscan_voting_machines_easily_hackable.php Missed this last week, but Black Box Voting reports that the Diebold version 1.94 opti-scan voting system is easily hackable (Optical Scan System Hacked (3 Ways)).Integer overflow checks do not seem to exist in this system, making it possible to... 5853@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-31T05:30:00-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/30/backup_or_hostage_cellphones.php Smaller, cheaper and ever more powerful, the cellphone and all its capabilities is ubiquitous. That doesn't mean that people won't try to stop people from carrying them in particular locations. They're going to fail. Heck, even 13-yr old girls are... 5844@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-30T20:24:22-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/29/cell_phone_security_theatre.php Educated Guesswork properly labels recent statements by the government on the potential use of cellphones on aircraft by terrorists "Security Theatre" (Do You Know What That Cell Phone Could Do in the Wrong Hands?).... 5821@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-29T20:01:32-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/27/the_new_digital_divide.php C|Net News has a disturbing report that a number of third world nations are essentially losing their connection to the internet due to the prevalence of spam and scam operations based there (Developing Nations Losing Spam Battle, Report Says). Entire... 5797@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-27T16:35:46-08:00