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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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
