Bruce Schneier

Symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria, with bonus security implications....

Someone claims to have reverse-engineered Skype's proprietary encryption protocols, and has published pieces of it. If the crypto is good, this is less of a big deal than you might think. Good cryptography is designed to be made public; it's only for business reasons that it remains secret....

In what creepy back room do they come up with these names? The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government's...

I don't think this is a good idea....

Not that we need more ways to get random numbers, but the research is interesting....

This is interesting: Some of the scenarios where we have installed video analytics for our clients include: to detect someone walking in an area of their yard (veering off of the main path) that they are not supposed to be; to send an alarm if someone is standing too close to the front of a store window/front door after hours;...

It's easy to access someone else's voicemail by spoofing the caller ID. This isn't new; what is new is that many people now have easy access to caller ID spoofing. The spoofing only works for voicemail accounts that don't have a password set up, but AT&T has no password as the default....

From 1955, intended as humor: In the future when I should ever call on the telephone to make a request or issue an order I will identify myself as follows: This is Hemingway, Ernest M. Hemingway speaking and my serial number is 0-363. That is an easy number to remember and is not the correct one which a con man...

The Chaocipher is a mechanical encryption algorithm invented in 1918. No one was able to reverse-engineer the algorithm, given sets of plaintexts and ciphertexts -- at least, nobody publicly. On the other hand, I don't know how many people tried, or even knew about the algorithm. I'd never heard of it before now. Anyway, for the first time, the algorithm...

Try to keep up: Leslie Van Houten, a one-time member of Charles Manson's infamous 'family' is up for parole for the 17th time today.... "These are serial killers," she said. "These would be domestic terrorists if it was today. So these are very dangerous people."...