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Follow Up To TSA Master Key Fail

In a classic TSA response, the TSA says that this is no big deal. First, here is what they said in 2003 when they introduced them: TSA official Ken Lauterstein described them as part of the agency’s efforts to develop “practical solutions that contribute toward our goal of providing world-class security and world-class customer service.” Now, […]

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The Government Wants Us To Believe They Can Keep A Crypto Back Door Secret …

FBI director James Comey has been telling everyone that the world will end unless every company around the world provides the FBI and only the FBI a back door to allow them to decrypt your communications.  This includes countries we like and ones we don’t like. So far the world isn’t listening to him, but […]

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Beware How You Use Password Managers

ARS Technica wrote a piece on the continuing security flaw with password managers like LastPass and KeePass on Android.  Technically, the problem is an Android problem, but from the user’s standpoint they don’t really care. The problem is tools like LastPass and many others use the Android clipboard to automatically log you on to a […]

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The Assumption Of Privacy – NOT!

Pierluigi Paganini, a fellow security blogger in Italy, wrote about a situation with Vodaphone where a Vodaphone employee rumaged through a journalist’s texts and phone calls to try and find the source of a story that the journalist wrote which was critical of Vodaphone’s security. The journalist, Natalie O’Brien, pictured above, described it as “creepy […]

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