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An oldie but a goodie. Star Wars examined from the point of view of Saltzer and Schroeder’s classic ‘The Protection of Information in Computer Systems‘, courtesy of Emergent Chaos.

Social Engineering exists regardless of what patch you have running in your OS. The weakest link in any security chain is ‘people’. Here are 8 common tactics. I’ve been able to employ a few of them, and psychological cues such as borrowing the companies ‘hold’ music are simple yet effective. This is a good companion piece to ‘Social Engineering Fundamentals.’

Just a quick code snippet. This isn’t ideal - it needs to be run twice in order to work. I’ll update it as I debug it, but I thought if I threw it ‘out there’ others can use/suggest changes as necessary. You should be very careful about putting this on a web site - you need to add your username/password so I’m running this in a cron job in a protected area of my server, with the output only going to a user-accessable area.

Mental note - this site shows how to do it all, connecting to Amazon…

Kitty Burns Florey believes “that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator.” With this in mind, she set about analysing some choice quotes from John McCain’s VP candidate. Sarah Palin has already caused the term ‘Palinism’ to be coined, with some choice quotes here.

Got my copy of Schneier on Security yesterday. Bruce had signed it and included the following code:

OHOE
OEYN
KBTJ


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