The Future of Security

RSnake examines what Star Trek tells us about the future of information security. A sample:

Organizations will focus on secure transport and network security and will still ignore drive encryption and the insider threat: I don’t really recall any times where enemies were able to intercept any meaningful communications between the Enterprise and other federation ships. That must mean they are using TLS16/SSL34.0 in the future, which is good, but for some reason any schmuck diplomat from some third world (pun intended) alien race can get any information out of the computer he wants without ever even supplying a password!

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Check out the entire post.

The LEGO Turing Machine

The computer science department at Aarhus University has created a Turing machine out of LEGO Mindstorms.

the fallacy of anonymized data

It's not so anonymous, after all.