Dr. Turkel of Digital History Hacks has a fascinating post about the OCR arms race, which is a part of the ongoing war on malware. Everything that is collected must converge….
Security guru Dan Kaminsky has apparently identified a major security hole in the current DNS system that has gone unnoticed for the past 20 years. The “peer review” process involved in his find is fascinating. (And, yes, “black hats” have their own conference, of course!) You might also want to take a look at his “Weaponizing Noam Chomsky” powerpoint presentation on the right-hand side of his blog…. bet you’ll never think of “grammar” in the same way again!
Early warning of trouble ahead in this excellent bibliography from the Naval Postgraduate School library for the library community itself, as I suspect that we can pretty much count on considerable collateral damage from the IMPACT of emerging government cybersecurity initiatives, as well as the direct damage from other quarters, which seems entirely possible, based on the work of both Richard Betts and Rebecca Knuth.
On the other hand, there can be too much technological innovation, as pointed out in this piece about the malware “arms race” from Net Security. Read more…
