Comment There is an idea for how to fix this already out t (Score 1) 292
It's a Transhumanist idea: http://www.transhumanist-party...
Comment There is an idea on how to fix that already. (Score 1) 292
Comment 100 hard drives... (Score 1) 487
... = excellent mini-trebuchet ballast.
2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open 160
Xcott Craver writes "The 2008 Underhanded C Contest has just opened. Every year, contestants are asked to write a simple, innocent, readable C program that appears to perform an innocent task — but implements some non-obvious evil behavior. This year's challenge: redact blocks from an image, but do it so that the excised pixels can somehow be retrieved. We also have listed the winners of last year's contest, which was to write a simple encryption utility that mysteriously and undetectably fails between 1 percent and 0.1 percent of the time. The winning entry is truly impressive."
We discussed the first of these contests in 2005.
Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture 70
Ben Rothke writes "Security
policies are like fiber, that is, the kind you
eat. Everyone agrees that
fiber is good for you, but no one really wants to eat
it. So too with information
security policies. They are
sorely needed, but most users don't go out of their way to comply with
them. And in many firms, they
are not even trained in what they have to do.
But
failure to
have adequate information security policies can lead to myriad risks for an
organization." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.
