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Fear and Public Perception

Nov 27, 2009
This 1996 interview with psychiatrist Robert DuPont was part of a Frontline program called "Nuclear Reaction." He's talking about the role fear plays in the perception of nuclear power. It's a lot of the sorts of things I say, but particularly...

Leaked 9/11 Text Messages

Nov 26, 2009
Wikileaks has published pager intercepts from New York on 9/11: WikiLeaks released half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and...

Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

Nov 25, 2009
Long, detailed, and very good story of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of last year. My own short commentary in the aftermath of the attacks.

Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds

Nov 25, 2009
If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game was the ability to declare that another user was a trusted friend. The feature...

Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice

Nov 24, 2009
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on security questions. They chose weak passwords, ignore security warnings, and are oblivious to...


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Hawaii
8.5
great
  A must read, not just for people interested in security issues, but for people who don't think they'd have any interest in security issues. Bruce Schneier offers a sharp, reasonable perspective on security practices that work, and many that don't.
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