Security links of the morning
2013-12-16 17:24:45.07962+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Metaphone: The NSA Three Hop. In which a crowd-sourced study of phone metadata reveals that there are some huge nexus phone numbers, and the NSA reassurance that they only browse 3 levels out from people of interests are meaningless because these nexus numbers mean that we are all within three levels of contacts.
Errata Security: How we know the 60 Minutes NSA interview was crap. In which it is pointed out that whatever technobabble was spewed during that interview, in fact we're still very much back to "Trust us".
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses', also corrects some misconceptions about NSA security.
Eros Blog: Sex Toys And Infosec is a bit of an expansion of the widely passed around Charlie Stross: Trust me (I'm a kettle) note that now that everything, including a Russian tea kettle, has a WiFi interface, everything is a virus transmission vector.
Everything.