6 days ago

Below from Bruce Schneier. I fully agree. =============================================== Prisons in the U.S. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/prisons_in_the.html Really good article on the huge incarceration rate in the U.S., its causes, its effects, and its value: Over all, there are ...

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18 days ago by Adam Thierer

[1]Since the days when Plato and Aristotle walked this Earth, philosophers have debated what constitutes the ideal state and, more specifically, what holds societies together. Why doesn’t society just fall apart? How does society function when you know you can’t possibly trust everyone in it? And wh ...

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26 days ago by theosintjournal

Strategic Issues Saturday, January 14, 2012 Photo: AFPMirza Sadaqat Huda The debate on cyber-terrorism ranges from predictions of an 'Electronic Pearl Harbor,' where chaos and destruction resulting from cyber-terrorism attacks on critical infrastructure and communication systems would result in riot ...

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30 days ago by marfdrat

If you haven’t heard of Bruce Schneier, he’s pretty well-known for regularly skewering the Transportation Safety Administration for its general uselessness in “preventing additional terror attacks.” Schneier maintains that the TSA is mostly a giant money-wasting government boondoggle that gives the ...

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39 days ago by Guru

Image by Getty Images via @daylife About a week ago, the TSA confiscated a cupcake, due to its gel-like frosting. Now, we’re not sure what the reasoning was behind this at the time. Perhaps it was being overzealous, perhaps the Security Officer had low blood sugar…maybe it was the name. We initially ...

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43 days ago by bmagnus

On my most recent trip, I had a unique book to read while lounging by a beach of white sand and impossibly blue water. That book was The Magic Room by Jeffrey Zaslow. No, not a fantasy novel for young adults, but a book about women — oddly bereft of feminism. It’s a book about brides and a very spec ...

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46 days ago by Mark Hewitt

March of 2012 Bruce Schneier – (author of the Crypto-Gram) will release his new title Liars and Outliers (Click on the link to pre-order the book) Bruce introduces ideas from across social and biological sciences he explains how we induce trust. The publisher is sending a review copy and I promise a ...

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49 days ago by Zachary Shahan

It was obvious to me the second I heard about “ climategate” that it was a crime (on the part of the hacker). But it hadn’t crossed my mind that it could be “cyber-terrorism” — now, it seems painfully obvious that it very well could be. Don Shelby of the Minnesota Post delved into this idea this wee ...

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56 days ago by The Mystery of the Supranational Rabbit

So, I see Bruce Schneier mention he had a cameo in a music video. Which, it turns out, is more than a little genderqueer, is a great cover of Together in Electric Dreams, and also has other geektastic presences, such as Jeff Minter, James Gosling, Guido van Rossum, and Kirk McKusick. I'd not heard o ...

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76 days ago by chimac

Image via Wikipedia Bruce Schneier: The iPhone Will Not be Safe From Malware. Of course. The whole idea of security is silly. How can anything made from man be secure from man? You can certainly make things harder to mess with, but sometimes you have to admit that securing things only leads to more ...

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