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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

more-on-de-perimeterization

Having just posted on de-perimeterization, I thought that this quote from Scott Borg of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit on the consequences of breaches:

"We started seeing huge vulnerabilities," Borg said Wednesday at the GovSec conference in Washington, where the draft document was released. Most of the systems were compliant with current security checklists and best practices. "And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines," susceptible to being outflanked.

burn-your-money

Seriously. And I'm not just mindlessly following the advice of Mojo Nixon. I'm saying it based on the fact:

a-total-eclipse-of-rational-thought

Certain passengers on a Paris-Mauritius flight felt threatened and endangered by Bonnie Tyler singing her hit song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and have sued Air France. Here is the story on UPI (hat tip to View From the top.

password-list-stored-on-usb-disks-allows-feds-to

It looks as though there was one admin, Wilson, who was cooperating with the feds and had the portable drives. Decrypting the mail resulted in the arrest of two other sys admins. Wilson thought he had deleted all the passwords to thwart the FBI. The investigation is part of a political corruption probe. See the full story in the Philly Inquirer

zdnet-looks-back-at-mcnealy

ZDNet has a video of some of Scott McNealy's jabs at Microsoft. While they don't strike me as some of his funniest, I really like that it is sponsored by Microsoft.

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