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September 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:18 PM

Credit Bureaus adopt data protection standard... so what?

So the three big credit bureaus are adopting a single data encryption standard to "further assure the protection of sensitive consumer data when transmitted between data furnishers and credit reporting companies" ( link ). Great. Except that data encryption
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:30 AM

British Gov't validating security tools - "CSIA CT Mark"

The CSIA is sort of the British version of NIST, with respect to IT. They've invented their own accreditation for security tools ( link ), basically looking to validate the vendor's claims (thus the name, "Claim Tested Mark"). This is a very different
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:19 AM

Cool stuff - Microsoft MAX

If you have a high-performance machine with a good video card, check out http://www.microsoft.com/max/ . It's the Codename Avalon user interface used for photo browsing. Not only is it really pretty, but it also shows some great ideas around how a UI
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:28 PM

Trapping passwords by listening to typing

An interesting paper to be published shortly by three clever people at UC Berkeley reports that without training (other than a 10-minute recording of someone typing) a recognition algortithm can be built to derive what is being typed, including passwords.
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