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
The list of limitations is long including libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, public security, and perjury. 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
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
Readiness, which examines the capacity to take advantage of accessing the Internet, including level of literacy, educational attainment, cultural acceptance, privacy and security, and trust in the sources of online information. say the same of security fears.”. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
introNetworks Secures $2.7 e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Fleck.Web page annotation | Main | Great Web Comic and the Guy Gets Fired!? » May 17, 2007 Good for introNetworks! MORE
The other major kind of blockchain killer-apps will likely deal with identity management and data security. Consequently, there’s no one overall owner responsible for security , let alone identity management, over the Internet. 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
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
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
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
I said that I look at the value of blockchain through two complementary lenses: enhancing the security of the Internet, and reducing the inefficiencies and overheads in applications, like supply chains, involving multiple institutions. MORE
I really liked how Johnson explained the fundamental problem with the Internet that blockchain is helping us address: identity and security. The January 21 issue of the NY Times Magazine included a very good article, Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble , by science writer Steven Johnson. MORE
Foremost among these limitations are privacy, security and inclusion. “Doing business on the Internet requires a leap of faith” because the infrastructure lacks the necessary security. Why wasn’t stronger security designed into the original Internet protocols? 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
As the economy and society move toward a world where interactions are primarily governed by digital data and transactions, our existing methods of managing identity and data security are proving inadequate. MORE
adtech advertising Business Identity Internet Journalism Law marketing privacy problems publishing 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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? -
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
OCTOBER 21, 2016
adtech advertising Business Identity Internet Journalism Law marketing privacy problems publishing security
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.
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.
David Weinberger
JUNE 16, 2009
Tags: google security iran twitter
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JUNE 18, 2018
Readiness, which examines the capacity to take advantage of accessing the Internet, including level of literacy, educational attainment, cultural acceptance, privacy and security, and trust in the sources of online information. say the same of security fears.”.
Mark Oehlert
MAY 17, 2007
introNetworks Secures $2.7 e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Fleck.Web page annotation | Main | Great Web Comic and the Guy Gets Fired!? » May 17, 2007 Good for introNetworks!
David Gurteen
APRIL 26, 2018
The list of limitations is long including libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, public security, and perjury.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
As the economy and society move toward a world where interactions are primarily governed by digital data and transactions, our existing methods of managing identity and data security are proving inadequate.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 7, 2018
I said that I look at the value of blockchain through two complementary lenses: enhancing the security of the Internet, and reducing the inefficiencies and overheads in applications, like supply chains, involving multiple institutions.
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.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
AUGUST 22, 2016
Foremost among these limitations are privacy, security and inclusion. “Doing business on the Internet requires a leap of faith” because the infrastructure lacks the necessary security. Why wasn’t stronger security designed into the original Internet protocols?
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MARCH 5, 2018
The other major kind of blockchain killer-apps will likely deal with identity management and data security. Consequently, there’s no one overall owner responsible for security , let alone identity management, over the Internet.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
I really liked how Johnson explained the fundamental problem with the Internet that blockchain is helping us address: identity and security. The January 21 issue of the NY Times Magazine included a very good article, Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble , by science writer Steven Johnson.
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