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Digital Content Protection Act of 2006
As if this wasn’t bad enough looking a month ago…now it’s just sounding like total science fiction is coming out of Congress. And from my own Senator now! Granted Boing Boing’s got a sci-fi writer posting, but the EFF’s info … Continue reading
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Let the witch hunts begin!
Boing Boing’s picked up an excellent example of why we may have more to fear in corporations than in government. Corporations have a huge interest in tracking their customers and aren’t necessarily going to care as much about the possible … Continue reading
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Blu-ray DRM trouble
Apparently the Blu-ray consortium is having trouble with their Advanced Access Content System. Wonder how much this has to do with Sony and their recent DRM problems? Its amazing how so much time and money can be put into something … Continue reading
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Content industry’s at it again
In the flurry of legislative action yesterday was a hidden gem from the House for the content industry in the form of HR-4569. Not too surprisingly with a huge amount of last minute legislation yesterday Thomas is way behind today … Continue reading
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And there it is…a Google XSS vulnerability
Not exactly in the area I’d been worrying about but nevertheless even big, smart Google makes mistakes. Looks like this XSS vulnerability was closed earlier this month and only publicised today and the message makes it sound like Google’s security … Continue reading
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Security interactions
Thinking about including Google’s javascript in my webpages last month (1 and 2) has had me thinking more on how complex interactions happen with software and security implications. The Sony mess with DRM is a good example of complex interactions, … Continue reading
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Schneier on Sony’s rootkit DRM
It’s been interesting to watch how this story has progressed into the mainstream press and the reactions, from BoingBoing’s commentary in the expected pretty pissed off blow by blow fashion to the newswire articles in the print paper that finds … Continue reading
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More javascript security thoughts
I’ve been subscribed to AWAD for many years and noticed today that they have their own bit of javascript for inclusion in your web site. This and the google one yesterday got me thinking think I’d never even looked at … Continue reading
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Google Analytics does what?
Sure I added a blog entry with a snippet of code recently and was blindly thinking it did something smart and dynamic and then realised that it was just a boring bit of html code. I obviously wasn’t really thinking. … Continue reading
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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
Marcus Ranum (smart guy and security expert) has an interesting new essay on common falacies in security. This is a good, thought provoking article.
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