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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 And why the attacker used an encrypted payload if the victim cannot open it? Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Hunt for Ghost #1

ForAllSecure

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. For example, Black Widow was not slated to run in China, at least not on the main screen.