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Corporate Information as Reverse Spam
From the NYT – Firms Fret as Office E-Mail Jumps Security Walls. A growing number of Internet-literate workers are forwarding their office e-mail to free Web-accessible personal accounts offered by Google, Yahoo and other companies. Their employers, who envision corporate … Continue reading
Canadian Breach Notification
From Emergent Chaos, a link to the paper “Approaches to Breach Notification” from the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. I’ve been spending this frosty MLK Day afternoon looking it over. I really dig this approach: Generally, the affected … Continue reading
Finders Keepers
Corporations lose data in a variety of ways, with impacts to the organization and to the privacy of individuals. The view from the advantage of the threat actors becomes a bit clearer when the lost data is identified simply as … Continue reading
Now That’s What I Call Fraud By Impersonation! COED EDITION!
NY Post story on mysterious fraudster coed. “All she took was her cat, her toothbrush and her brushes and combs – anything with DNA on it,” he said. Man, I try to keep my DNA away from my cat. From … Continue reading
Provably Private?
From the Guardian, I read this curious article on privacy and contextualintegrity. “Linear temporal logic,” eh? I wish I could groove to what that means. So I read Wikipedia, then I started researching the folks mentioned in the article, finding … Continue reading
Grackles in a Pancake Mine!
This morning, city officials decided to shut down a significant portionof Austin’s central business district due to the discovery of a covey ofdead birds. Meanwhile, Gotham panics when confronted with a strange pancake smell. I’m not going to second guess … Continue reading
Hostage as Asset
Reading Two Wheels Through Terror by Glen Heggstad.A cracking adventure story ofthe author’s attempt to ride his KLR 650 from his home in Palm Springsto Tierra Del Fuego and back. I’m not yet finished, but have completedthe chapters that relate … Continue reading
The Lost Wallet vs. The Mugging
According to the new round of disclosure laws that sprouted up out of state houses in the past couple years, if an outfit loses your data, they ought to let you know. The notice if familiar to just about anyone … Continue reading
Initial Post
The initial post for this blog. A place where I plan on documenting my thoughts on privacy, security, and the world in general.
The One In Five 