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  Me on Full-Body Scanners in Airports

  Posted: May 20th, 2009, 3:34pm CDT

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  I'm very happy with this quote in a CNN.com story on "whole-body imaging" at airports: Bruce Schneier, an internationally recognized security technologist, said whole-body imaging technology "works pretty well," privacy rights aside. But he thinks the financial investment was a mistake. In a post-9/11 world, he said, he knows his position isn't "politically tenable," but he believes money would be...
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  Microsoft Bans Memcopy()

  Posted: May 20th, 2009, 7:17am CDT

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  This seems smart: Microsoft plans to formally banish the popular programming function that's been responsible for an untold number of security vulnerabilities over the years, not just in Windows but in countless other applications based on the C language. Effective later this year, Microsoft will add memcpy(), CopyMemory(), and RtlCopyMemory() to its list of function calls banned under its secure...