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Popsicle Makers a Security Threat
From Schneier on Security

Popsicle Makers a Security Threat

Chicago chef Rick Bayless photographed this security sign, posted before airport security as people were returning home from the Aspen Food & Wine Festival: No...

How Much Counterterrorism Can We Afford?
From Schneier on Security

How Much Counterterrorism Can We Afford?

In an article on using terahertz rays (is that different from terahertz radar?) to detect biological agents, we find this quote: "High-tech, low-tech, we can't...

The Real Risk: Traffic Deaths
From Schneier on Security

The Real Risk: Traffic Deaths

The New York Times Room for Debate blog did the topic: "Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?"

Buying an ATM Skimmer
From Schneier on Security

Buying an ATM Skimmer

Interesting: TM skimmers -- or fraud devices that criminals attach to cash machines in a bid to steal and ultimately clone customer bank card data -- are marketed...

Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers
From Schneier on Security

Cheating on Tests, by the Teachers

If you give people enough incentive to cheat, people will cheat: Of all the forms of academic cheating, none may be as startling as educators tampering with children's...

AT&T's iPad Security Breach
From Schneier on Security

AT&T's iPad Security Breach

I didn't write about the recent security breach that disclosed tens of thousands of e-mail addresses and ICC-IDs of iPad users because, well, there was nothingwere...

Friday Squid Blogging: LOLSquid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: LOLSquid

It's supposed to be a classic, but I've never seen it before.

Remote Printing to an E-Mail Address
From Schneier on Security

Remote Printing to an E-Mail Address

This is cool technology from HP: Each printer with the ePrint capability will be assigned its own e-mail address. If someone wants to print a document from an...

The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists
From Schneier on Security

The Continuing Incompetence of Terrorists

The Atlantic on stupid terrorists: Nowhere is the gap between sinister stereotype and ridiculous reality more apparent than in Afghanistan, where it's fair toPortrait...

Hot Dog Security
From Schneier on Security

Hot Dog Security

A nice dose of risk reality: Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement calling for large-type warning labels on the foods that kids most...

Patrolling the U.S./Canada Border
From Schneier on Security

Patrolling the U.S./Canada Border

Doesn't the DHS have anything else to do? As someone who believes that our nation has a right to enforce its borders, I should have been gratified when the Immigrations...

Filming the Police
From Schneier on Security

Filming the Police

In at least three U.S. states, it is illegal to film an active duty policeman: The legal justification for arresting the "shooter" rests on existing wiretapping...

Dating Recordings by Power Line Interference
From Schneier on Security

Dating Recordings by Power Line Interference

Interesting: The capability, called "electrical network frequency analysis" (ENF), is now attracting interest from the FBI and is considered the exciting new frontier...

Reading Me
From Schneier on Security

Reading Me

The number of different ways to read my essays, commentaries, and links has grown recently. Here's the rundown: You can read my writings daily on my blog. These...

Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
From Schneier on Security

Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner

On April 1, I announced the Fifth Annual Movie Plot Threat Contest: Your task, ye Weavers of Tales, is to create a fable of fairytale suitable for instilling the...

Protecting Cars with The Club
From Schneier on Security

Protecting Cars with The Club

From the Freakonomics blog: At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the Club...

Behavioral Profiling at Airports
From Schneier on Security

Behavioral Profiling at Airports

There's a long article in Nature on the practice: It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's...

Friday Squid Blogging: Polymer Clay Squid Ornament
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Polymer Clay Squid Ornament

Cute.

Security Cartoon
From Schneier on Security

Security Cartoon

Hi and Lois, no less.

Mainstream Cost-Benefit Security Analysis
From Schneier on Security

Mainstream Cost-Benefit Security Analysis

This essay in The New York Times is refreshingly cogent: You've seen it over and over. At a certain intersection in a certain town, there'll be an unfortunate...
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