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more-on-the-nsa-wiretaps-fro-m-the-national

The National Journal has an interesting update on the technology used in the NSA wiretaps.

error-message-your-password-must-be-at-least-18770

Ouch

educational-security-incidents-year-in-review

The Educational Security Incidents Year in Review - 2007 is out. As Adam points out, not everyone cares that incidents were up 67.5%. I'm not sure that I would either - the total number of incidents was 139, which seems small relative to the number of colleges and universities out there. My guess is that the incidents have to make it to the news. Perhaps incidents are becoming less news-worthy.

computer-crime-and-security-survey-shows-increase

The annual CSI survey is (almost) out and it shows a big increase in reported costs. Companies reported average annual losses of $350,424 in the past year, up sharply from the $168,000 they reported the previous year.

marginal-revolution-on-vaccinations

Kiss me, I'm vaccinated:

People who have the flu spread the virus so getting a flu shot not only reduces the probability that I will get the flu it reduces the probability that you will get the flu. In the language of economics the flu shot creates an external benefit, a benefit to other people not captured by the person who paid the costs of getting the shot. The external benefits of a flu shot can be quite large. Under some conditions each person who is vaccinated reduces the expected number of other people who get the flu by 1.5.
Perhaps we have been taking the wrong tack thinking about how to punish PC users who have malware on their machines.. Maybe offering additional benefits to users with verifiable security mechanisms is a better solution. Maybe one of those benefits would be access to IRC channels often used by malware to contact their controller.

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