Information Security with Occasional Forays into Other Realms
Apparently, Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has taken up the $10 Billion Evil Gauntlet and is running with it (kids, don't do that at home...), if reports are to be believed. Read it and weep for the Interweb's lowly bookseller, turned to the darkside... Today's Must Read.
via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe at XKCD!
Via Sean Gallagher, writing at our beloved ArsTechica, comes the astonishing (well, not so astonishing give the source company...) news of Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) blog publishing capers. This time, they managed to blogify their PGP private key for all the world to see. Crypto-Darwin Award canditate you say? Maybe, if there was one.
Today MustRead details the secretive environment many vulnerability researchers and operatives live and labor within. Enjoy.
Presented for your consideration - a 1997 paper entitled The Use of Encrypted, Coded and Secret Communications is an "Ancient Liberty" Protected by the United States Constitution, published by the University of Virginia Journal of Law and Technology]*.
John Fraser III the author of this superlative screed (now an attorney in Washington, DC) presents his fascinating argument on encryption, and the 'ancient right' to utilize cryptographic artifacts in the course of communications, protected, of course, by our nations' Constitution. Today's Must Read.
*Va. J.L. & Tech. 2 Fall 1997 1522-1687 / © 1997 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology Association
Presentation by Anja Drephal detailing a Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (also known as the CCCP) or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) espionage cell, operating within the national boundaries of Nippon in the 1930s and 1940s along with it's success in crypto. Whilst nearly two years old and delivered to the assembled at the Chaos Communication Congress 2013 (30C3), Drephal's presentation is assuredly worth directing your attention to (the math in the second half of the presentation is chock full of Import & Intrigue); Tuesday's Must View documentary...