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The American Way of Electronic Signatures

English, Freundlich zum Nutzer, Gadget, Security, , ,

An electronic signature is not what security nerds think it is, or think it should be. This is a valid implementation of electronic signatures:

»Instead, you sign a piece of paper and hold it up to your iSight/Facetime camera while Preview snaps a photo. It’ll then detect the signature and allow you to add it to your document. To do this, just open the PDF document you want to sign, click “Annotate” in the toolbar if the annotations bar isn’t already showing, and then click the Signature drop-down menu.«

(Lifehacker via Timyeo’s Blog)

If people are happy with it, as they surely will as Apple made it, what exactly are the problems that we are trying to solve with all our cryptography?

28C3: CFP for 28th Chaos Communication Congress

English, Events, Forschung, Hackmeck

Und noch ein CfP:

The Chaos Communication Congress the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Berlin, Germany. First held in 1984, it has since established itself as “The European Hacker Conference” attracting a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopists from all around the world.
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The deadline for submission is October 11th, 2011 Midnight (23:59) UTC. Notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail on November 20th, 2011 the latest. However, you may very well get your notification earlier than that if needed.
– October 11th, 2011 (Midnight UTC) Submission due
– November 20th, 2011 (Midnight UTC) Final notification of acceptance (or earlier)
– December 27th – 30th, 2011 Chaos Communication Congress

Usable Security: Participatory Design

English, Freundlich zum Nutzer, Fundbüro

»If your PERSHING II system needs improvement, let us know. Send us an EIR. You, the user, are the only one who can tell us what you don’t like about your equipment. Let us know why you don’t like the design. Put it on an SF 368 (Quality Deficiency Report). Mail it to Commander, U.S. Army Missile Command, AlTN: AMSMI-QA-QMD, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5290. We’ll send you a reply.«

(TM 9-1425-386-10-1)

Post-privacy in practice

Datenschutz, English, Fundbüro, O-Ton

While our government-appointed privacy officials fight Google, Facebook, and everyone who dares processing IP addresses, this is going on in the world around us:

»One incident that recently came up is the fact that my car reports latitude, longitude, position, and speed whenever it downloads an RSS feed (yes my car actually downloads RSS – it’s a Nissan Leaf).«

(SIGCRAP: The continuing erosion of privacy)

[Update: See The Risks Digests for links to details.] I suppose my cellphone may do the job for me while I’m riding my bicycle.