More Security Theatre

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Dave

I’ve posted before about how airport security is more theatre then actual security.

We can now add guns to the list of things that the TSA doesn’t worry about finding.

So what do they do when their error is pointed out? Why arrest the guy who brought it to their attention, of course.

But shampoo? They’ve got that one down.

So tell me, if you discovered you were carrying a weapon after you were through security, what would you do? How about if you stumbled across something suspicious inside security? What does the TSA teach is the correct response?

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Posted on January 24, 2008 by Dave

Phishers stealing from other phishers, has nature created anything nearly as beautiful?

From NetCraft, Phishing kits take advantage of novice fraudsters

However, while the phishing kit is easy to use, an encrypted component within the kit is used to send a copy of the captured details to an additional gmail address, which belongs to the author. This will not be obvious to most fraudsters using the kit, as the relevant code is detached from the configuration file and is heavily obfuscated, requiring some effort to decode

And another article from Netcraft, and one from The Register

A bunch of WordPress tweaks

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Dave

I made a ton of relatively minor changes, articles are now crosslinking based on topical content, automatically tagging, plus a few other cosmetic clean-ups to the theme.

My items for-sale are loaded more-or-less dynamically on the sidebar, feel free to buy my stuff. I’ve also added back the “Interesting Links”, which is a short list of news articles I find interesting enough to share, but not interesting enough to blog about.

Feedback is appreciated! Any features/data overwhelming? Under whelming? Should I shut up about the meta stuff and stop tweaking?

The Dave

I'd rather be phishing

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More Security Theatre

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A bunch of WordPress tweaks