Heathrow employees leap out of kettle

[Adam Shostack]

http://silicon.com/news/164-51/1/5237.html?rolling=1

 Staff were angered by the roll out of swipe cards which effectively
 enable bosses to monitor their comings and goings and effectively
 re-introduced the practice of clocking-on and clocking-off.
[...]
 Around 100,000 travellers and holidaymakers were left stranded at
 the world's busiest international airport by the unofficial action
 over the weekend.

Of course, the rest of us are not so privledged.

Adam


-- 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
   -Hume

Re: Credit Card fraud gets simple

[Adam Shostack]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:44:23AM -0500, Smith, Michael J. wrote:
| Abstract:  Credit card theft is now automated via irc bots, even the CVV2.
| 
| http://www.honeynet.org/papers/profiles/cc-fraud.pdf

This is unsuprising.  The interesting question is how much of the cost
will consumers eat vs merchants?  Will 3DSET, where you authenticate
to your bank, catch on, or be seen as too annoying?  What, if
anything, is poised to replace credit cards?

Adam


-- 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
   -Hume

Re: [Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

[Adam Shostack]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:11:58AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
| On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 05:17  AM, Adam Shostack wrote:
| 
| I wasn't arguing, I was quipping.
| 
| I find the many meanings of the word privacy to be fascinating.  So
| when someone commented that the car's tattle-box is or isn't a privacy
| invasion, I thought I'd offer up a definition under which it is.
| Its a definition that lots of people use, as John points out.
| 
| Perhaps better than 'right' would be 'ability,' 'The ability to lie
| and get away with it.'
| 
| I wasn't picking on you or your points, that's for sure. In fact, I 
| barely noticed whose message I was replying to.

Gives new meaning to anonymous postings. ;)

| My point was a larger one, that nearly all such debates about privacy 
| eventually come round to issues of what have you got to hide? and 
| issues of truth and lies.
| 
| This is why I like the Congresss shall make no law and shall not be 
| infringed absoluteness of the original Constitution. The language does 
| not natter about truthful speaking shall not be infringed.
| 
| And this is why more recent legislation allowing government to regulate 
| commercial speech or to decide which speech is true and which is 
| false (as in advertising claims) is so corrosive to liberty.

Indeed.  The European data protection laws are fundamentally
unamerican.  Unfortunately, Congress has made laws, numbering each of
us, and then tries to regulate the abuse of that (free, freely usable,
legally enforced) numbering scheme.

Adam



-- 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
   -Hume