Category Archives: security

General thoughts and links on security – physical, electronic, whatever.

SecureCode FAIL?

SecureCode® is a program by MasterCard to have another (useless?) number you type in to use your credit card with certain merchants. You may remember when the CVV2 code was the NEW BIG THING that people asked for to make sure you were really the person using the card. (IMHO, each of these is perfectly …

2008/11/12 – 9:44 am | By scott | Posted in browsers, firefox, security, software | Comments (0)

Blogging by email and passwords

Just set this up for this site. In the process, I came across an idea for generating random passwords and/or strings needed for things like this – take a mathematical series and use the sequence of numbers starting at a random place. All you have to do to remember the password is remember the starting …

2007/6/25 – 6:20 pm | By scott | Posted in blogging, security, software, unix | Comments (0)

Schneier on Security: London Transport Bombings

Schneier on Security: London Transport Bombings The second and third paragraphs of this article sum up why I think the vast majority of actions by Homeland Security and the government in general are wastes of time. I would also like to urge everyone not to get wrapped up in the particulars of the terrorist tactics. …

2005/7/13 – 7:57 am | By scott | Posted in security | Comments Off

Lack of Protective Imagination

Lack of Protective Imagination from Richard Forno, courtesy of Bruce Schneier. Nice read on how the government actions seem to be more for appearance and less for actual security. Update – changed to the wording slightly. I’m trying to say the actions are not really increasing security, but they are trying to offer the appearance …

2005/7/12 – 10:11 pm | By scott | Posted in security | Comments Off