Shostack + Friends Blog Archive

 

Small Bits of Chaos

  • Michael Giest is covering Canadian Parliamentary hearings over that country’s privacy law in “PIPEDA Hearings – Day 01 (Industry Canada)” “PIPEDA Hearings – Day 02 (B.C. Privacy Experts)
  • Bakelblog vents about the petty tyranny of immigration bureaucrats in “Welcome to America, Fuckwads!” [link to http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2006/11/welcome_to_amer.html no longer works]
  • Alec Muffet has interesting and detailed comments about the broken security of the Apple store at “Easy AppleID Password & Account Theft.”
  • Bruce Schneier points out that EPIC has gotten ahold of documents that show that “RFID Passports are less reliable than traditional passports.” So let’s see: less reliable, less secure, less private and more expensive. What’s not to love?
  • Sameer Parekh points to a story about the elimination of traffic controls, and asks what emerges from chaos in “No More Traffic Controls.” [link to http://www.creativedestruction.com/archives/000661.html no longer works]