Archive for the 'security' Category

Sony’s Rootkit scandal

December 17, 2007

Two scientists, Aaron Perzanowski and Deirdre Mulligan, have created an extensive report on the Sony-BMG rootkit scandal in 2005. Interesting, [...]

The “war on terror” or “when sh*t hit the fan”

November 6, 2007

Bruce Schneier almost always have smart things to say and this essay is no exception. As a european, I can’t fail to notice the exact same pattern here. There’s hardly a day that passes by without at least one story about suspicious content that brought out the whole shebang of police equipment extraordinaire.
The war on [...]

HowTo for FreeRADIUS setup

November 6, 2007

The first part of a howto for setting up FreeRADIUS to increase the security of your home network. I really like the site SmallNetBuilder (not the least because they cover the NAS market far better than anyone else) & I really should work on securing my wireless a lot more…

CCTVs is all the rage these days…

November 6, 2007

Maybe not turning out to be the stuff that helps to solve crimes though
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/159319086/londons-panopticon-o.html
Update: And the day after comes the story of a couple of swedes stealing from grannies being caught because of the CCTV coverage. Oh well, great to see them being useful at least once… Tjuvar lurade gamla vid bankomater [...]