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| On sources of news about digital insecurities | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 3 2012, 07:22 AM (487 Views) | |
| mok-kong shen | Aug 3 2012, 07:22 AM Post #1 |
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What are the good sources of news about digital insecurities? One that I found is the Risks Digest in comp.risks, from which one may find e.g. one recent news about an attack against a Microsoft authentication scheme that reportedly affects hundreds of crypto applications. In general IMHO people seem to have become apathetic to such news just like they are in matters of the enormous daily mortality rate due to traffic accidents, hunger, aids, etc. etc., which are consequently barely, if ever, mentioned in any newspapers. Very much more important and interesting are of course those e.g. about football games. Edited by mok-kong shen, Aug 3 2012, 07:22 AM.
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| mok-kong shen | Aug 15 2012, 10:12 AM Post #2 |
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In relation to the 2nd paragraph of my OP, I like to quote the following from a nice article that Bruce Schneier wrote in his CRYPTO-GRAM, August 15, 2012: Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar and common ones. We think rare risks are more common than they are. We fear them more than probability indicates we should. |
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| mok-kong shen | Aug 16 2012, 08:59 AM Post #3 |
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A good source of insecurity news in German is: http://www.heise.de/security/news/ |
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