Articles in the Security Category
Google, Privacy, Security, Values in Design »
Today, a six page letter was sent to Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, asking Google to honor the important privacy promises it has made to its customers and protect users’ communications from theft and snooping by enabling industry standard transport encryption technology (HTTPS) for Google Mail, Docs, and Calendar.
The open letter is signed by 38 researchers and academics in the fields of computer science, information security and privacy law — myself included. The letter was spearheaded by Christopher Soghoian, a computer researcher, programmer and privacy activist, and it has already received …
Security »
There’s been a flurry of news recently about an article from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University researchers showing that secret questions used to recover forgotten passwords aren’t so secret after all. As reported in Technology Review:
In a study involving 130 people, the researchers found that 28 percent of the people who knew and were trusted by the study’s participants could guess the correct answers to the participant’s secret questions. Even people not trusted by the participant still had a 17 percent chance of guessing the correct answer to a secret …
