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submission
jhigh writes:
The generation that brought the obsession of snapping facial photos, uploading to social media channels and terming it “selfies” has unknowingly launched a new platform of cyber security for the world, a kind of biometric termed, “pay with your face.” This is a fitting legacy for millennials, who impart knowledge one click at a time.
17762424
submission
jhigh writes:
Bruce Schneier posts on his blog today about the cost of terror in terms of cost-benefit for the terrorists. If you look at terror attacks in terms of what they cost the terrorists to implement compared with what they cost the economy of the nation that was hit, the reward for terrorists are astronomical. Add in the insane costs of the security measures implemented afterward, particularly in America, and it's easy to see why the terrorists do what they do. Even when they're unsuccessful, they cost us billions in security countermeasures.
17622522
submission
jhigh writes:
With the launch of the new Facebook messaging system designed to encourage account holders to utilize Facebook for all of their messaging needs, one would think that Facebook would recognize that it cannot continue to block content that it disagrees with. However, Wired reports that Facebook messaging, like the rest of the social networking application, continues to block links to torrents and other file sharing sites, even when users are sending messages via their facebook.com email address. Say what you want about the morality of using file sharing services to share copyrighted material, if Facebook wishes to become a player in the email market, they cannot block content.
17473264
submission
jhigh writes:
Bruce Schneier asks the question, how often should you change your password? "The primary reason to give an authentication credential — not just a password, but any authentication credential — an expiration date is to limit the amount of time a lost, stolen, or forged credential can be used by someone else. If a membership card expires after a year, then if someone steals that card he can at most get a year's worth of benefit out of it. After that, it's useless." Another reason could be to limit the amount of time an attacker has to crack the password, but Bruce's analysis seems on target.
