[funsec] Utah vs. Digital Signatures

2010-06-02 Thread Gregory Hicks
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_15214033 Utah Supreme Court hears ballot access case Politics: Court asked to determine whether they count in qualifying candidates for ballot. By Cathy McKitrick The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 06/02/2010 06:58:38 PM MDT The use of electronic signatures

Re: [funsec] Fail!

2010-06-02 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
Date sent: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:40:26 +0900 From: Peter Evans > ps: in JP companies, innovation is an anathema. Nonsense. *Everybody* wants to innovate. They just don't want to do anything differently ... == (quote inserted randomly by Pega

[funsec] Peace in the Middle East? ;)

2010-06-02 Thread Gadi Evron
Dave Marcus tweeted on some Gaza tweets leading to malware and infecting people. I can already imagine the botnet of infected Israelis and Palestinians spamming Viagra. Peace in the Middle East? :) Gadi. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion fo

[funsec] Butterfly banknotes

2010-06-02 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/02/butterflies-color-bank-card- security.html Butterflies and some birds (such as peacocks) are actually black. The colours come from diffraction effects. We've been using diffraction gratings on some credit cards for a while, but you'll notice that

[funsec] Software SNAFU has cyberwar implications

2010-06-02 Thread Remo Cornali
Software SNAFU took out 10,000 military geo locators Receiver upgrade gone bad As many as 10,000 global positioning system receivers were rendered useless for days as a result of a software upgrade in January that didn't go well, the Associated Press reports. http://www.theregister.co.uk