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Concentrate a bit.

Lots of people have said pigs don't fly and they still don't fly. We have good reason to think pigs won't fly, and there is good evidence that quantum computing won't reach the stage where it will be able to fulfil suggested applications.

Do you have any evidence to the contrary, apart from smartass remarks at the level of rigour used to insist that proof of God's existence is only a matter of time?

Note that Adi Shamir is the "S" in RSA. The other two authors are from the Weizmann Institute and Hebrew University. Though the paper is not public yet, these guys seem like genuine crypto all stars. http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2010/01/another_week_another_gsm.html

If it's negligence in case of the company then it does make sense to sue the company. No employee should be running around with a laptop full of SSNs and addresses around (even if they are encrypted). That's negligence and the full force of the law should be brought on those people.

If it's due to a physical theft, say a burglary, you can't do too much about it. You can only review your procedures and make sure it doesn't happen again.

The worst is when companies fail to report it. They're the ones who should be sued to hell and back.

Someone agrees with you about oh-so-precious neologisms like "pharming" being considered harmful. "Pharming", besides being cutesy, is uncommunicative: it doesn't convey any more about the nature of the attack than "blepping" would, and with more risk of confusion as everyone tries to figure out how DNS spoofing relates to agriculture.

MS sell-out Adam Shostack blogged about this at http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/11/vuln erability_game_theory.html

Actually most scientists publish in journals that everyone can read.

I don't know about "most", but certainly not most mathematicians, physicists, or engineers. Certainly not in journals my school can pay for. We have tremenduous difficulties getting some of those journals and information, which is contrary to the spirit of science and academic collaboration. There are huge problems with publishing in the sciences. Witness for example the resignation of the board of editors of Topology and the rants of John Milne.

Science ought to push copyright aside.

I've never heard of a university library that turned away the public.

Have you been to the university libraries of many different countries? Here in .mx that has happened to me.

FYI, all journals (that I've published in) require us to pay to publish our articles

Which is a damn shame... The cost of having people publish, peer review, and publish journal articles is already indirectly paid by taxes and government, sometimes private investors, but it shouldn't come directly come out of the scientist's pocket, and this cost certainly shouldn't be inhibitting the public at large from gaining access to information. Again, I speak for the hard sciences most of which are pursued for their own sake; perhaps in scientific applications with more interest for Big Business the rules are different.

The TSA had already been briefed about fake boarding passes.

The source:
http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/cat_breaches .html

(anonymous because im at a public computer)

cimmer

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060611/ap_on_re_us/vo ter_records_missing

The source:
http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/cat_breaches .html

(anonymous because im at a public computer)

cimmer

I was in town to do a privacy webcast, and was invited to hang around and see Blue Hat. My thoughts are at http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/001822.html

One thing that the scanner vendors often say when confronted by privacy zealots is "Come on! It is impossible to reconstruct a real fingerprint from the stuff we scan, so your police-state fears are mathematically impossible." Turns out this is untrue