a travelogue
Photos, books, links and writing related to security
Everything tagged security
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10/17/07
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Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier
In its efforts to combat terrorism, fight human trafficking, and bust drug dealers, the Department of Homeland Security is compiling a large database of where you go, who you travel with, what you read and more. Should you decide you’d …continue reading »
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09/18/07
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Big Brother is Watching us All
There’s a line in the quintessentially paranoid film Enemy of the State where Gene Hackman’s character suggests that all the technology being used to track Will Smith’s characheter is nothing, antiquated, compared to what could be used. Judging by this …continue reading »
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06/05/07
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How to Control Crowds in Ancient Pompeii
An interesting study of crowd control and urban design as practiced by the acient Greeks in Pompeii. Strangely enough, I found this in a white paper at a security consulting firm: “In ancient Pompeii, if you walk northeast along the …continue reading »
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12/06/06
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Personal firewall for the RFIDs you carry
“The implementation details are both ingenious and plausible — it’s a remarkable piece of work. Up until now, the standard answer to privacy concerns with RFIDs is to just kill them — put your new US Passport in a microwave …continue reading »
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09/27/06
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Boing Boing: Micro air vehicles that cooperate
“MIT researchers are using tricked-out model helicopters, each about the size of a seagull, to demonstrate swarming behavior in unmanned micro-air vehicles (drones).” Yeah, we all get to live in a scifi nightmare. I can’t wait.continue reading »
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08/24/06
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What the Terrorists Want
“Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn’t engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn’t …continue reading »
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08/18/06
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Schneier on Security: Human/Bear Security Trade-Off
Shot clip about the bear problems in Yosemite NP back in the 1980’s. Most notable for this quote: “Said one park ranger, ‘There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.’”continue reading »
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08/03/06
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Hackers Clone RFID Passports
Of course they do. I read somewhere else that someone showed how they could be used to set off roadside bombs. Not that’s a smart bomb it doesn’t go off until the right nationality walks by. Jesus people, what’s wrong …continue reading »