by Bruce Schneier | Oct 30, 2020 | Cyber Security
Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert have published “A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research.” From a summary: Such risk extends beyond anti-hacking laws, implicating copyright law and anti-circumvention provisions (DMCA §1201), electronic... by Bruce Schneier | Oct 29, 2020 | Cyber Security
A security researcher discovered a wulnerability in Waze that breaks the anonymity of users: I found out that I can visit Waze from any web browser at waze.com/livemap so I decided to check how are those driver icons implemented. What I found is that I can ask Waze... by Bruce Schneier | Oct 28, 2020 | Cyber Security
Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didn’t answer: The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for the spy agency into their products, according to disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden... by Bruce Schneier | Oct 27, 2020 | Cyber Security
Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard in the modern age, but most of the failures to date have been a result of not realizing that... by Bruce Schneier | Oct 27, 2020 | Cyber Security
Slate magazine was able to cleverly read the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition and reverse-engineer many of the redacted names. We’ve long known that redacting is hard in the modern age, but most of the failures to date have been a result of not realizing that...
