Arthur D. Hlavaty

Security design

2016-10-04T10:02:31Z

Bruce Schneier points out that fixing the user is not a workable policy.

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Don’t you feel safer?

2016-05-16T20:00:18Z

Homeland Security protects us from unethical massages.

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Opening wedge

2016-02-18T10:44:22Z

Finding a particularly horrible case, as usual, the FBI wants Apple to break its security for them. Bruce Schneier discusses.

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Advantages of working with airport baggage

2015-11-15T12:52:40Z

The TSA does not protect you, but they did just get caught smuggling lots of cocaine

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Now where will the Family Research Council find baggage handlers?

2015-08-26T09:57:03Z

When the Department of Homeland Security made us all show our papers to buy Sudafed because NARCOTERRORISM!!! I figured that they wanted crusades against Homoterrorism and Pornoterrorism but figured that even the American public wouldn't buy that one. Once again I was insufficiently cynical. Behold the Rentboy crackdown.

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At Guantanamo Bay we're confined to our quarters

2015-02-06T10:54:18Z

Mere military and intelligence leaders don't understand security risks as well as Republican senators do.

Thanx to Metafilter

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Those Diabolically Clever North Koreans

2014-12-18T22:55:21Z

Sony Kept Thousands of Passwords in a Folder Named "Password"

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Don't you feel secure?

2014-10-23T10:09:38Z

Homeland Security: protecting us from panties with team logos they didn't pay royalties on

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Health

2014-03-15T10:18:19Z

Computer security is like public health

Thanx to Bruce Schneier

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Quis custodiet

2013-09-30T16:54:38Z

Privatized national security company said that Edward Snowden and Aaron Alexis were fine fellows.

Thanx to Hal Davis on Facebook.

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While the ghost of Ezra Pound laughs

2012-12-03T10:58:31Z

The Department of Homeland Security's new HQ is an abandoned insane asylum

Thanx to Frank Palmer Purcell on Facebook

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Security

2012-06-09T12:00:18Z

Children warned name of first pet should contain 8 characters and a digit

Thanx to andrewducker

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From a secret admirer

2011-10-25T00:20:34Z

mash note: a love letter, particularly a hot and steamy one. The future of mash notes is endangered by the internet.

--Urban Dictionary

TSA to the rescue!

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Security

2011-09-14T09:42:39Z

The next step for the TSA (NWS)

Thanx to andrewducker

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Against liberty

2011-06-03T12:50:47Z

Five bad arguments for "security"

Thanx to Bruce Schneier

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Sit on this, TSA

2010-12-03T10:35:04Z

Bruce Schneier suggests a symbol for the War on the Unexpected.

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Degradation

2010-11-30T12:53:45Z

So much for the idea that the TSA wouldn't have to do all that nasty invasive stuff if we had a system like Israel's.

Thanx to rm

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Slogans

2010-11-26T20:42:33Z

Your TSA in action

Thanx to wcg

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"My developers tell me that the tool is secure."

2010-11-24T11:22:55Z

Amusing security story

Thanx to andrewducker

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More on the TSA

2010-11-19T13:56:12Z

Bruce Schneier has some typically intelligent thoughts on the mess.

Governments and corporations tend to treat "What could go wrong?" as a rhetorical question.

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The peepers

2010-11-18T15:42:39Z

Just as computers created the possibility of instantly making a mistake that formerly would have taken weeks of effort by a roomful of scientists, so government security agencies create the possibility of new awful acts that could once only have been dreamed of. The latest is committing sexual assault passively.

Those wonderful folks at the TSA, who presumably have not outgrown thinking it would be really neat to be Superman so you could use your x-ray vision to look under girls' dresses, offer their new device or the alternative possibility of a really thorough manual examination (though I believe it stops short of cavity search). So some bloggers have suggested that men show up for the flight wearing kilts with nothing underneath, and others have called that sexual assault.

But it's like phone spam. Back before we had opt-out lists and caller ID, I often found myself dealing with an auditory home invader and not being able to get any fun out of verbally abusing him because I knew he was just someone doing a crappy job for low wages and I couldn't get at the real perps. Likewise, only more so, with passively abusing the TSA workers.

I'm one of the fortunate few who don't fear the magic scanner. I'm already sterile, and as my similar-age friend D. Gary Grady said, if someone sees me naked, who suffers more? I'm still agin it.

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Security metatheatre

2010-07-09T20:12:10Z

Setting its own house in order, the TSA has blocked a number of "controversial" Web sites from its own computers. I'm sure this is every bit as well thought out as banning 3-oz toothpaste containers from planes.

Thanx to Bruce Schneier

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"My nightmare scenario is that people keep talking about their nightmare scenarios."

2010-05-13T12:52:23Z

Bruce Schneier on worst-case thinking.

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supergee @ 2009-10-29T08:46:00

2009-10-29T12:47:28Z

TSA examined by someone who knows what she's talking about.

Thanx to Bruce Schneier

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Most people's houses don't get demolished

2009-06-25T12:58:40Z

Bruce Schneier on paperwork.

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