15 Worst Internet Privacy Scandals of All Time PCWorld – StumbleUpon. This link has some interesting stories. It is amazing to me that people engage in this kind of immature behavior. What do they seek to gain from it?
Wifi \’Protected Setup\’: not that protected at all | TG Daily – StumbleUpon. No surprise here. Anytime you make things easier you compromise the security of the product.
Edenwaith : Products : Permanent eraser – StumbleUpon. If security is your top goal, then using this program will help you. Of course the regular mac secure delete takes longer, so I expect this to take much longer.
Microsoft report: Users responsible for half of all infections – The H Security: News and Features. I wonder if there is a similar breakdown for Apple users and malware?
Adobe Warns of Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat Products | SecurityWeek.Com. I’m coming to the conclusion that the less Adobe you have the more secure your computer is. I bet they have as many security vulnerabilities as Windows. Perhaps they need a Trusted Computing Initiative of their own?
Hack your monitor and 3D glasses, ensure ultimate privacy — Engadget. This doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. We already know that many people have headaches with 3D theater glasses. Plus the fact that you can’t collaborate with this setup. Loose your glasses and you are out of luck too. No, this seems to cause more issues than it solves. If someone needs that much privacy, then you need to stick them in an office and not a cube.
Bruce Schneier: The iPhone Will Not be Safe From Malware. Of course. The whole idea of security is silly. How can anything made from man be secure from man? You can certainly make things harder to mess with, but sometimes you have to admit that securing things only leads to more work to the users, not in more real security against people with mal intentions.
According to this article no. McAfee just doesn’t get it. They don’t get that Mac people are conditioned to expect things to work.