Swans on Tea

flickr: WWIII Propaganda Posters
Loose tweets sink fleets!
The timing of stumbling across this is interesting, what with the Facebook kerfuffle involving the wife of the head of MI6

Ralph Nader with a slim jim.
The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
Thinking like a criminal is Tobias’ idea of fun. It makes him laugh. It has also made him money and earned him a reputation as something of the Rain Man of lock-breaking. Even if you’ve never heard of [...]

Prairie dogs return to Md. Zoo. Keepers scramble as animals try to escape.
When the animals were let out of their crates into their new habitat Wednesday, not all sought to escape. More than a few seemed happy to take a noontime siesta. Others were more interested in a lunch of biscuits, kale, apples, carrots, [...]

Anti-Terrorist Fantasy Dream Team on the Case
“I believe a fictional threat is best met with decisive fictional force,” explained President Obama. “Jack Bauer and Wolverine are among the very best we have when in comes to combating fantasy foes.” Mr. Bauer said, “We’re quite certain that our prisons are secure. Osama bin Laden and his [...]

Pub evacuated after Monty Python prop mistaken for grenade
[A]fter nearly an hour of analysis bomb experts realised that the cause of the scare was in fact a copy of the “Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch” used by Eric Idle to slaughter a killer rabbit in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
Thank goodness [...]

Balancing Security and Usability in Authentication
In most cases, how an authentication system works when a legitimate user tries to log on is much more important than how it works when an impostor tries to log on. No security system is perfect, and there is some level of fraud associated with any of these authentication methods. [...]

If It’s Difficult to Pronounce, It Must Be Risky.
ABSTRACT- Low processing fluency fosters the impression that a stimulus is unfamiliar, which in turn results in perceptions of higher risk, independent of whether the risk is desirable or undesirable. In Studies 1 and 2, ostensible food additives were rated as more harmful when their names were [...]

Hacker war drives San Francisco cloning RFID passports
Using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop, Chris recently drove around San Francisco reading RFID tags from passports, driver licenses, and other identity documents. In just 20 minutes, he found and cloned the passports of two very unaware US citizens.

Terrorists may use Google Earth, but fear is no reason to ban it
Criminals have used telephones and mobile phones since they were invented. Drug smugglers use airplanes and boats, radios and satellite phones. Bank robbers have long used cars and motorcycles as getaway vehicles, and horses before then. I haven’t seen it talked about yet, [...]

I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
To test whether I was being paranoid, I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a photo with a 3G iPhone. Because iPhones embed geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or Picasa, iPhone shots [...]

FBI’s code-cracking challenge
The basics: Analysis of Criminal Codes and Ciphers

Playmobil Security Check Point
As with the BIC ballpoint pen, the true gold is in the reviews.
I will never need to buy toothpaste again thanks to Playmobil. Not realizing this was a toy I purchased it to prepare for my interview as a TSA agent. Needless to say I aced it and have been happily viewing [...]