schneier Brian Krebs is reporting on some new and sophisticated phishing scams over the telephone. I second his advice: "never give out any information about yourself in response to an unsolicited …
Facebook Is Using Your Two-Factor Authentication Phone Number to Target Advertising
schneier From Kashmir Hill: Facebook is not content to use the contact information you willingly put into your Facebook profile for advertising. It is also using contact information you handed over …
More on the Five Eyes Statement on Encryption and Backdoors
schneier Earlier this month, I wrote about a statement by the Five Eyes countries about encryption and back doors. (Short summary: they like them.) One of the weird things about the statement is that …
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Protein Used in Variable Thermal Conductivity Material
schneier This is really neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. …
Major Tech Companies Finally Endorse Federal Privacy Regulation
schneier The major tech companies, scared that states like California might impose actual privacy regulations, have now decided that they can better lobby the federal government for much weaker …
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Counting People Through a Wall with WiFi
schneier Interesting research: In the team's experiments, one WiFi transmitter and one WiFi receiver are behind walls, outside a room in which a number of people are present. The room can get very …
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