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It succinctly defines blockchain as “a shared, decentralized, cryptographically secured, and immutable digital ledger,” and then adds a few key attributes that are particularly important to enterprise blockchains: Accountability. Security. “Enterprise blockchains are fault-tolerant. MORE
In a world that’s increasingly governed by digital transactions and data, our existing methods for managing security and privacy are no longer adequate. From time immemorial, our identity systems have been based on face-to-face interactions and on physical documents and processes. MORE
The Independent has an article giving a rare look inside Broadmoor Hospital , one of only four high security psychiatric hospital in the UK, which houses some of the most severely dangerous offenders with mental illness. Broadmoor is the oldest and most well-known high secure hospital in Britain, having housed a string of high profile murders and other violent offenders since Victorian times to the present day. MORE
Citibank continues to train its customers to use terrible security processes. This morning I got a call from a robot that claimed to be from Citibank. When I refused to type in my zip code, and then waited for two minutes of repeated requests to do so, it transferred me to a human who wanted me to give him my name and password. Thus does Citibank train its users to divulge personal information to anyone with an automated phone dialer. MORE
Tools - A Summary - was general consensus around: Software as a Service is Great for Learning Professionals inside Corporations Firewall restrictions still pose a problem for SOME services Security is a concern, but generally should not stop use The reason that Software as a Service is so attractive is that it is often hard to get Corporate IT to spend time on getting even simple software packages set-up and even harder to get them to agree to support these packages. Look at security. MORE
MSN article) Here is the shocking synopsis of this article : Security needs to be better in Web 2.0 apps and more importantly on peoples perception of the secureness of those apps, then there will be greater and greater commercial pressure to secure those apps. MORE
He noted these police officers have a very strong deaf and visual sense and can better detect what is happening in different places where the cameras are located; they can often remotely read the conversations of people, to the benefit of this security system that operates 24 hours a day. MORE
Conducted by Gallup in partnership with the MetLife Foundation and the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors , the study aimed to develop two key financial measures: how secure do people feel around the world, and how much control and influence they believe they have over their financial situations. MORE
On December 1 the Commission issued its final Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy. Technological advancement is outpacing security and will continue to do so unless we change how we approach and implement cybersecurity strategies and practices. MORE
AI has the potential to significantly advance national security. The report recommends that national security agencies adopt AI-enabled systems in key areas where AI can help them better understand and execute their missions. Apply AI to National Security Missions. MORE
That’s why you should be extremely cautious when you hear an appeal to security. I don’t doubt that the US security folks believe it, but it is without meaning. security folks say they are spying on us for our own security, are they saying literally nothing? Chomsky’s generalization that governments always justify surveillance in the name of security. These are all forms of surveillance, but in none of these cases is security given as the justification. MORE
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. hrheingold : “Don’t refuse to believe; refuse to start out believing.” ” #crapdetection. MORE
Nature has an extensive article on the 'deception detection training' that's been widely rolled out for airport security staff and anti-terrorism police despite that fact that is has barely been publicly tested. Link to Nature 'Airport security: Intent to deceive As we reported in 2007, a great deal of this training seems to be based on psychologist Paul Ekman's various methods for focusing on facial expressions as a way of improving the ability to detect lies. MORE
It is my understanding from my daughter’s ITS officer that SP is the ITS’s dream, especially if security is a factor. The inherent linearity and security of SP may have specific value in the context you noted. MORE
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The post Security? I had three presentations today and my voice held up, just. I’ve had a bad cold for weeks and jumping time zones is not the best way to shake that off. But I fell back on a trusted recipe of lemsip, whisky, throat sweets and a degree of self-delusion as to my condition. MORE
When there’s a security issue, they wouldn’t robocall people and ask them to provide personal information. They would robocall people and ask them to call the number on the back of their cards. They would put people’s photographs on their credit cards. Citi used to offer that as a free option, but apparently has discontinued the practice MORE
It has been said that “security” is not found in apprehending a guilty party but in preventing the harm from occurring. While this notion can surely be overextended, it can also be understood to justify a certain degree of intelligence gathering in the service of safety and security. MORE
Because it came on suddenly and with a vengeance, the global health crisis severely impacted corporations’ bottom lines, levels of information security, employees, and more. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused problems for organizations worldwide. MORE
So I forwarded it to the security team saying 'login in and fix what is wrong'. What you say online is not private, it is not secure, it is what you put on the billboard on I-15. You are not secure. Summary of a talk by Parry Aftab at the IFIPTMA Conference in Moncton. It is important that you know why I am so trustworthy. I am the most trustworthy person on the internet. A recent widow in Nigeria wrote to me and told me so. I get all these emails. So I must be trustworthy. MORE
How do I as a paranoid security person deal with all the baggage I bring to the discussion? I see identity management as the real issue that is going to link security and privacy. I cannot engage most security professionals in discussions about privacy. And vice versa. -- Part One Personal baggage - I have a defence and security background. The real advancement in the discussion is going to come from the privacy advocates, not the security advocates. MORE
A system is only as secure as its weakest point. Feynman also got involved in safe-cracking - he would try to find patterns in the security. From a security implementor's point of view - stupid defenses only keep out stupid attackers. Planning for security in the design stage is rarely done. Never assume your system is secure, never assume there are no bugs, especially if you try to use 'home-brew' crypto. Security is not convenient. MORE
Berkman Blogging Harvard Internet problems publishing securityFor some reason, many or most of the images in this blog don’t load in some browsers. Same goes for the ProjectVRM blog as well. This is new, and I don’t know exactly why it’s happening. MORE
Is this weekend''s security aler t related to the Snowden case? Not one given to conspriracy, but we just have had the head of the NSA lie to Congress and the American public, with no penalty. Then we have Snowden pointing out that the head of the NSA lied to Congress and the American public, and he is considered a traitor worthy of life imprisonment. The attorney general had to declare publicly he would not be tortured. When has the US had to promise not to torture an American citizen? MORE
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Juliette Kayyem , a former Boston Globe columnist, a commentator, Homeland Security advisor to Gov. Deval Patrick, and a former candidate for governor of Massachusetts, is giving a Shorenstein Center talk about how to talk with the public about security issues. Juliette oversaw the local Homeland Security response to the Marathon Bombing and had participated in the security planning. She learned that last lesson from her security experience. MORE
The challenge is how to minimize the privacy and security risk without compromising health care. As the keynote said, you can paralyze the good stuff by trying to secure everything. In Canada - here is no legislation to inform people about breaches of security - in the U.S. there is - 40 percent of medicaid companes have experienced a security breach in the last year - we don't know that level in Canada. They need help on security, compliance, risk management,etc. MORE
If that person returns in the future and the facial-recognition software detects them, security will be dispatched to ask the gambler to leave.” the largest variety of existing and imaginable ways that security can be breached. We can know more than we can tell. MORE
why not both Home About Contact Thursday, 13 January 2011 Your Twitter security is an egg, not an onion Hard to come up with a more fuzzy title really. Business or Pleasure? - MORE
— “Security is mostly a superstition. “With enough ‘security,’ corporate or national, you can utterly kill freedom, production capacity, and morale.” Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. MORE
and the Department of Homeland Security.” Instead, Fourth, develop useful and constructive ideas toward what we can do— each of us, alone and together—to secure, protect and signal our privacy needs and intentions in the world, in ways others can recognize and respect. MORE
Normally I run Zone Alarms security suite of products and I generally think they are the best out there - they are certainly better than Norton in terms of being Norton being such a resource hog. RIGHT-click on Uninstall ZoneAlarm Security, then select Properties 04.) Click on Start -> Programs -> ZoneAlarm -> Uninstall ZoneAlarm Security 07.) Click Uninstall to run the uninstaller, and choose OK or yes to any security alerts that pop up. MORE
Cassels Brock US and Canadian Securities Regulators Unite for ‘Operation Cryptosweep’. The alert noted, "It is illegal to solicit investments in Nova Scotia without registering with the commission and complying with Nova Scotia securities laws." MORE
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure. So new wine for new wineskins, it's a simple test and while it has a delight of adventure it is far from secure. It's Thursday so it must be Bangkok more or less summarises this week which is a series of 1/2 night hotel stays. MORE
Andy is an MIT and DC energy tech guy (and, it turns out, a neighbor) who writes two blogs: The Smart Grid Security Blog and the DoD Energy Blog. Tags: ecology power military security experts The Wired.com piece I wrote about Robin Chase prompted Andrew Bochman to send me an email. MORE
The article makes a strong case for flexicurity - shorthand for flexible security, - a social model from the Nordic countries which aims to achieve both flexibility in labor markets and security for workers. Entrepreneurship and flexible security. MORE
icon icons location bar Mozilla security tool bar Starting a few upgrades back, Firefox started showing this… … when you clicked on that little icon at the left end of the location bar. What’s the name for that?) Now, with version 3.5.3 (and MORE
As the internet becomes an essential part of lives — enabling us to access government services, connect with friends, and earn a living — there are frustratingly few ways to maintain privacy or security online. MORE
So, how can you make your social media and other account more secure? For Google, it’s under Account -> Security -> 2-step verification. For Facebook, it’s Account Settings -> Security -> Login Approval. MORE
The current landscape of cyber security is frightening and implementing processes to tackle the growing problem seems daunting. 48 percent of data security breaches are caused by acts of malicious intent. After examining the current cybersecurity landscape, organizations have a very clear recourse: train end-user (non-IT) employees in cyber security protocols. Preventing many attacks is as simple as a few hours of security training. Security. MORE
This , of course, is the inevitability that some terrorist somewhere will notice that the best targets today are in those heaving seas of tired, parched and irritable seas of humanity crowded immediately outside security. But we are supposed to trust these people who are managing our security for us. It is hard, very hard, to think of our national security forces as the enemy. Of our own security. I am not a specialist in security and defense and terrorism. MORE
adtech advertising Business Identity Internet Journalism Law marketing privacy problems publishing security MORE
The Task Force noted that leadership in innovation, research and technology since World War II has made the US the most secure and economically prosperous nation on earth. economic competitiveness and national security.”. MORE
Security Related Topics Dave Snowden
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
The post Security? I had three presentations today and my voice held up, just. I’ve had a bad cold for weeks and jumping time zones is not the best way to shake that off. But I fell back on a trusted recipe of lemsip, whisky, throat sweets and a degree of self-delusion as to my condition.
Dave Snowden
JUNE 5, 2013
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure. So new wine for new wineskins, it's a simple test and while it has a delight of adventure it is far from secure. It's Thursday so it must be Bangkok more or less summarises this week which is a series of 1/2 night hotel stays.
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 13, 2020
The Task Force noted that leadership in innovation, research and technology since World War II has made the US the most secure and economically prosperous nation on earth. economic competitiveness and national security.”.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JANUARY 2, 2017
On December 1 the Commission issued its final Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy. Technological advancement is outpacing security and will continue to do so unless we change how we approach and implement cybersecurity strategies and practices.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 1, 2017
As the internet becomes an essential part of lives — enabling us to access government services, connect with friends, and earn a living — there are frustratingly few ways to maintain privacy or security online.
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 6, 2012
— “Security is mostly a superstition. “With enough ‘security,’ corporate or national, you can utterly kill freedom, production capacity, and morale.” Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week.
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 28, 2015
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. hrheingold : “Don’t refuse to believe; refuse to start out believing.” ” #crapdetection.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
icon icons location bar Mozilla security tool bar Starting a few upgrades back, Firefox started showing this… … when you clicked on that little icon at the left end of the location bar. What’s the name for that?) Now, with version 3.5.3 (and
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
That’s why you should be extremely cautious when you hear an appeal to security. I don’t doubt that the US security folks believe it, but it is without meaning. security folks say they are spying on us for our own security, are they saying literally nothing? Chomsky’s generalization that governments always justify surveillance in the name of security. These are all forms of surveillance, but in none of these cases is security given as the justification.
Nine Shift
AUGUST 3, 2013
Is this weekend''s security aler t related to the Snowden case? Not one given to conspriracy, but we just have had the head of the NSA lie to Congress and the American public, with no penalty. Then we have Snowden pointing out that the head of the NSA lied to Congress and the American public, and he is considered a traitor worthy of life imprisonment. The attorney general had to declare publicly he would not be tortured. When has the US had to promise not to torture an American citizen?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
AUGUST 29, 2016
In a world that’s increasingly governed by digital transactions and data, our existing methods for managing security and privacy are no longer adequate. From time immemorial, our identity systems have been based on face-to-face interactions and on physical documents and processes.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 8, 2006
This , of course, is the inevitability that some terrorist somewhere will notice that the best targets today are in those heaving seas of tired, parched and irritable seas of humanity crowded immediately outside security. But we are supposed to trust these people who are managing our security for us. It is hard, very hard, to think of our national security forces as the enemy. Of our own security. I am not a specialist in security and defense and terrorism.
David Weinberger
APRIL 1, 2015
Juliette Kayyem , a former Boston Globe columnist, a commentator, Homeland Security advisor to Gov. Deval Patrick, and a former candidate for governor of Massachusetts, is giving a Shorenstein Center talk about how to talk with the public about security issues. Juliette oversaw the local Homeland Security response to the Marathon Bombing and had participated in the security planning. She learned that last lesson from her security experience.
David Weinberger
DECEMBER 11, 2011
When there’s a security issue, they wouldn’t robocall people and ask them to provide personal information. They would robocall people and ask them to call the number on the back of their cards. They would put people’s photographs on their credit cards. Citi used to offer that as a free option, but apparently has discontinued the practice
Mind Hacks
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
He noted these police officers have a very strong deaf and visual sense and can better detect what is happening in different places where the cameras are located; they can often remotely read the conversations of people, to the benefit of this security system that operates 24 hours a day.
Martijn Linssen
JANUARY 12, 2011
why not both Home About Contact Thursday, 13 January 2011 Your Twitter security is an egg, not an onion Hard to come up with a more fuzzy title really. Business or Pleasure? -
TOPYX LMS
OCTOBER 24, 2017
The current landscape of cyber security is frightening and implementing processes to tackle the growing problem seems daunting. 48 percent of data security breaches are caused by acts of malicious intent. After examining the current cybersecurity landscape, organizations have a very clear recourse: train end-user (non-IT) employees in cyber security protocols. Preventing many attacks is as simple as a few hours of security training. Security.
David Weinberger
MAY 11, 2009
Andy is an MIT and DC energy tech guy (and, it turns out, a neighbor) who writes two blogs: The Smart Grid Security Blog and the DoD Energy Blog. Tags: ecology power military security experts The Wired.com piece I wrote about Robin Chase prompted Andrew Bochman to send me an email.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
It has been said that “security” is not found in apprehending a guilty party but in preventing the harm from occurring. While this notion can surely be overextended, it can also be understood to justify a certain degree of intelligence gathering in the service of safety and security.
Doc Searls
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
and the Department of Homeland Security.” Instead, Fourth, develop useful and constructive ideas toward what we can do— each of us, alone and together—to secure, protect and signal our privacy needs and intentions in the world, in ways others can recognize and respect.
David Weinberger
JUNE 16, 2009
Tags: google security iran twitter
Doc Searls
OCTOBER 31, 2019
If that person returns in the future and the facial-recognition software detects them, security will be dispatched to ask the gambler to leave.” the largest variety of existing and imaginable ways that security can be breached. We can know more than we can tell.
David Weinberger
APRIL 7, 2011
Citibank continues to train its customers to use terrible security processes. This morning I got a call from a robot that claimed to be from Citibank. When I refused to type in my zip code, and then waited for two minutes of repeated requests to do so, it transferred me to a human who wanted me to give him my name and password. Thus does Citibank train its users to divulge personal information to anyone with an automated phone dialer.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 31, 2007
A system is only as secure as its weakest point. Feynman also got involved in safe-cracking - he would try to find patterns in the security. From a security implementor's point of view - stupid defenses only keep out stupid attackers. Planning for security in the design stage is rarely done. Never assume your system is secure, never assume there are no bugs, especially if you try to use 'home-brew' crypto. Security is not convenient.
Doc Searls
OCTOBER 21, 2016
adtech advertising Business Identity Internet Journalism Law marketing privacy problems publishing security
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 30, 2007
The challenge is how to minimize the privacy and security risk without compromising health care. As the keynote said, you can paralyze the good stuff by trying to secure everything. In Canada - here is no legislation to inform people about breaches of security - in the U.S. there is - 40 percent of medicaid companes have experienced a security breach in the last year - we don't know that level in Canada. They need help on security, compliance, risk management,etc.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 2, 2007
How do I as a paranoid security person deal with all the baggage I bring to the discussion? I see identity management as the real issue that is going to link security and privacy. I cannot engage most security professionals in discussions about privacy. And vice versa. -- Part One Personal baggage - I have a defence and security background. The real advancement in the discussion is going to come from the privacy advocates, not the security advocates.
Mind Hacks
APRIL 21, 2009
The Independent has an article giving a rare look inside Broadmoor Hospital , one of only four high security psychiatric hospital in the UK, which houses some of the most severely dangerous offenders with mental illness. Broadmoor is the oldest and most well-known high secure hospital in Britain, having housed a string of high profile murders and other violent offenders since Victorian times to the present day.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 1, 2007
So I forwarded it to the security team saying 'login in and fix what is wrong'. What you say online is not private, it is not secure, it is what you put on the billboard on I-15. You are not secure. Summary of a talk by Parry Aftab at the IFIPTMA Conference in Moncton. It is important that you know why I am so trustworthy. I am the most trustworthy person on the internet. A recent widow in Nigeria wrote to me and told me so. I get all these emails. So I must be trustworthy.
Doc Searls
MAY 14, 2016
Berkman Blogging Harvard Internet problems publishing securityFor some reason, many or most of the images in this blog don’t load in some browsers. Same goes for the ProjectVRM blog as well. This is new, and I don’t know exactly why it’s happening.
Tony Karrer
MAY 22, 2006
Tools - A Summary - was general consensus around: Software as a Service is Great for Learning Professionals inside Corporations Firewall restrictions still pose a problem for SOME services Security is a concern, but generally should not stop use The reason that Software as a Service is so attractive is that it is often hard to get Corporate IT to spend time on getting even simple software packages set-up and even harder to get them to agree to support these packages. Look at security.
Mind Hacks
MAY 27, 2010
Nature has an extensive article on the 'deception detection training' that's been widely rolled out for airport security staff and anti-terrorism police despite that fact that is has barely been publicly tested. Link to Nature 'Airport security: Intent to deceive As we reported in 2007, a great deal of this training seems to be based on psychologist Paul Ekman's various methods for focusing on facial expressions as a way of improving the ability to detect lies.
Beth Kanter
MAY 30, 2013
So, how can you make your social media and other account more secure? For Google, it’s under Account -> Security -> 2-step verification. For Facebook, it’s Account Settings -> Security -> Login Approval.
Nancy White
JANUARY 5, 2010
It is my understanding from my daughter’s ITS officer that SP is the ITS’s dream, especially if security is a factor. The inherent linearity and security of SP may have specific value in the context you noted.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 18, 2020
AI has the potential to significantly advance national security. The report recommends that national security agencies adopt AI-enabled systems in key areas where AI can help them better understand and execute their missions. Apply AI to National Security Missions.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Conducted by Gallup in partnership with the MetLife Foundation and the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors , the study aimed to develop two key financial measures: how secure do people feel around the world, and how much control and influence they believe they have over their financial situations.
TOPYX LMS
JUNE 18, 2020
Because it came on suddenly and with a vengeance, the global health crisis severely impacted corporations’ bottom lines, levels of information security, employees, and more. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused problems for organizations worldwide.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 2, 2007
MSN article) Here is the shocking synopsis of this article : Security needs to be better in Web 2.0 apps and more importantly on peoples perception of the secureness of those apps, then there will be greater and greater commercial pressure to secure those apps.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 29, 2019
It succinctly defines blockchain as “a shared, decentralized, cryptographically secured, and immutable digital ledger,” and then adds a few key attributes that are particularly important to enterprise blockchains: Accountability. Security. “Enterprise blockchains are fault-tolerant.
Mark Oehlert
NOVEMBER 12, 2007
Normally I run Zone Alarms security suite of products and I generally think they are the best out there - they are certainly better than Norton in terms of being Norton being such a resource hog. RIGHT-click on Uninstall ZoneAlarm Security, then select Properties 04.) Click on Start -> Programs -> ZoneAlarm -> Uninstall ZoneAlarm Security 07.) Click Uninstall to run the uninstaller, and choose OK or yes to any security alerts that pop up.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Cassels Brock US and Canadian Securities Regulators Unite for ‘Operation Cryptosweep’. The alert noted, "It is illegal to solicit investments in Nova Scotia without registering with the commission and complying with Nova Scotia securities laws."
Nine Shift
OCTOBER 1, 2013
Just like you do know the first day of Social Security, August 14, 1935. No matter, Obamacare will become as accepted as Social Security is today. Today is an historic day in the 21st century, the first day of Obamacare. Or the Affordable Healthcare Act.
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