I was cruising youtube for cyberpunk vids. It’s not a genre that gets updated that much on youtube.
However, I did find a bizarro music video called “SID LA LA MAC”
Youtube link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tj33MP5AEH4
It’s cyberpunk in the way that some people describe “Second Life” as cyberpunk.
Found this over at Schneier’s blog titled “Kids and Lying“.
Worth the read.
The original article is called “Learning to lie“.
A couple of interesting excerpts:
It starts very young. Indeed, bright kids—those who do better on other academic indicators—are able to start lying at 2 or 3. “Lying is related to intelligence,”
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Although we think of truthfulness as a young child’s paramount virtue, it turns out that lying is the more advanced skill. A child who is going to lie must recognize the truth, intellectually conceive of an alternate reality, and be able to convincingly sell that new reality to someone else. Therefore, lying demands both advanced cognitive development and social skills that honesty simply doesn’t require.
I’d never seen this perspective before. Manipulating perception of reality is an act of intelligence and persuasion. That does make sense.
he most disturbing reason children lie is that parents teach them to. According to Talwar, they learn it from us. “We don’t explicitly tell them to lie, but they see us do it.
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Consider how we expect a child to act when he opens a gift he doesn’t like. We instruct him to swallow all his honest reactions and put on a polite smile.
This one is pretty common, from an early age lie to protect the feelings of adults. Schooled from a very early age to be polite through telling white lies. Also, the concept of lying to adults instead of tattling/telling on your mates seems to be a factor.
So, paradoxically, it seems lying is an integral part of a society which values honest.
Princeton have a great Youtube video and material on retrieving secret keys used in hard disk encryption called “Lest we remember: Cold boot attacks on Encryption keys”.
My quick summary of their material:
While disk encryption will still increase security from casual or opportunistic theft of a laptop, it may not provide much protection from a targetted attack.
This seems a little ironic that software used to protect a laptop contents when it’s stolen or lost may not actually do so depending on if users shutdown or sleep. I can vouch that with Windows Vista on a laptop, bootup and shutdown takes way longer than putting the laptop to sleep. So, are your users taking convenient shortcuts to save time?
Anyway, back to Princeton, from their Abstract:
Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard.
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We use cold reboots to mount attacks on popular disk encryption systems — BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt, and TrueCrypt — using no special devices or materials.
Youtube link to ‘Lest we remember: Cold boot attacks on Encryption keys’
Physical access is always key to security. This style attack would suggest that sensitive information is still vulnerable if stored on a laptop. This then becomes a game of risk and probability for an organisation:
This is a great example of how physical access can really undermine security, even if encryption is used.
The Princeton site and material relating to this attack can be found at http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
Following on from
Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote
Johnny has demo’ed his head tracking coolness with the WiiRemote.
Youtube: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
This level of interactivity with technology creates a more natural user interface, a closer interaction between people and their machine.
Johnny’s site: http://johnnylee.net/