Arthur D. Hlavaty

Security design

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:02:31 GMT

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

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Don’t you feel safer?

Mon, 16 May 2016 20:00:18 GMT

Homeland Security protects us from unethical massages.

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Opening wedge

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:44:22 GMT

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

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:52:40 GMT

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?

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:57:03 GMT

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

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:54:18 GMT

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

Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:55:21 GMT

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

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Don't you feel secure?

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:09:38 GMT

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

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Health

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:18:19 GMT

Computer security is like public health

Thanx to Bruce Schneier

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Quis custodiet

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:54:38 GMT

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

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:58:31 GMT

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

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:00:18 GMT

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

Thanx to andrewducker

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From a secret admirer

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:20:34 GMT

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

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:42:39 GMT

The next step for the TSA (NWS)

Thanx to andrewducker

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Against liberty

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:50:47 GMT

Five bad arguments for "security"

Thanx to Bruce Schneier

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Sit on this, TSA

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:35:04 GMT

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

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Degradation

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:53:45 GMT

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

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:42:33 GMT

Your TSA in action

Thanx to wcg

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

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:22:55 GMT

Amusing security story

Thanx to andrewducker

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More on the TSA

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:56:12 GMT

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

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:42:39 GMT

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

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:12:10 GMT

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."

Thu, 13 May 2010 12:52:23 GMT

Bruce Schneier on worst-case thinking.

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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:47:28 GMT

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

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:40 GMT

Bruce Schneier on paperwork.

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