Schneier this week

Schneier in the current installment of Crypto-Gram has some interesting links. This month's installment seems very good. More interesting than previous months. Although they're all worth reading.

He gets something wrong though about the manila times and profiling of terrorists (male, between certain ages, cellphone, uneasy). Maybe that's just because he needed a short tagline. The article attributes the profile to the NCR Police Office (from which stupidities like this are expected).

The article certainly doesn't sound as stupid as schneier's comment makes it sound. That there is some controversy in the police organizations about the usefulness of the stereotype would normally be a good thing. Except that might just be normal intra-governmental infighting with no good reason behind it.

In the same issue of Crypto-Gram though are a whole bunch of links related to the Sony DRM rootkit (heh, it can be used to avoid WoW spyware (what's that doing, maybe just checking for piracy and such?), a trojan uses the Sony rootkit/trojan to hide, Sony has given up on it and Microsoft will detect it and remove it. Heh.

And There's an interesting weblog on malware from F-Secure, found it linked to from Schneier. I may look at it every day now. Or maybe add it to an RSS aggregator, if i can figure out how to do that :-) Huh, madali lang pala, using reader.google.com. Too lazy to try other RSS readers.

Hmmm, now to figure out how to get a feed from TechScene (kind of bass ackwards, since I could just get feeds direct from the people, but I'm lazy or too busy at work to remember too many feeds or URLs, or both).

There's also a link to an article discussing the prank article on aluminum foil hats previously discussed here. It looks like some heavy handed humor back and forth, but I'm not so sure about that zapatopi link. Some people are nuts about this stuff, and he might be one of them. He *does* have a book on practical mind control protection with aluminum foil beanies but I haven't read that, so I don't know if it's just a relatively long lived prank feeding on the paranoids and taking their money :-).

Lots more articles, all of it interesting. Every 15th of the month (well, 16th in the Philippines) is a huge time sink (but only about 33% a waste of time) because of this monthly email :-)