Schneier on Security: Data Mining Software from IBM

In the long term, corporate data mining efforts are more of a privacy risk than government data mining efforts. And here's an off-the-shelf product from IBM:

IBM Entity Analytic Solutions (EAS) is unique identity disambiguation software that provides public sector organizations or commercial enterprises with the ability to recognize and mitigate the incidence of fraud, threat and risk. This IBM EAS offering provides insight on demand, and in context, on "who is who," "who knows who," and "anonymously."

Schneier on Security: Data Mining Software from IBM

Get 10 Copies of New Ubuntu Linux on CD Shipped Free

The New Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake) will be released in early June. You can get up to 10 copies shipped to you absolutely free including 64 bit and Mac versions.

Get 10 Copies of New Ubuntu Linux on CD Shipped Free

Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote

Mozilla has reached the latest development milestone for its next-generation Firefox 2.0 "Bon Echo" browser with a little anti-phishing help from Google.

Anti-phishing capability, which Mozilla has branded "Safe Browsing," is one of the marquee features in Firefox 2.0 and one of the reasons a third alpha is necessary. Now baked into Firefox 2.0 alpha 3, Google Safe Browsing is triple-licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1, the GPL 2.0 (define) and the LGLP (define).

It is also built into the Google Toolbar, which is available for both Firefox and IE.
Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote

Inhabitat » Blog Archive » GROUNDBREAKING MATERIAL: OLED illuminated surfaces

Imagine a house without a single light fixture - but instead walls, ceilings, furnishings, and accessories all sources of light. Thanks to research at Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC), almost any surface in a building can become a light source with OLEDs.
Inhabitat » Blog Archive » GROUNDBREAKING MATERIAL: OLED illuminated surfaces

TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future

This week, our editors have compiled a list of the “Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future”, from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it’s all here. Which ones are your favorites?
TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future

Growing glowing nanowires to light up the nanoworld

The nano world is getting brighter. Nanowires made of semiconductor materials are being used to make prototype lasers and light-emitting diodes with emission apertures roughly 100 nm in diameter--about 50 times narrower than conventional counterparts. Nanolight sources may have many applications, including "lab on a chip" devices for identifying chemicals and biological agents, scanning-probe microscope tips for imaging objects smaller than is currently possible, or ultra-precise tools for laser surgery and electronics manufacturing.
Growing glowing nanowires to light up the nanoworld

Carbon Nanotube Computers

Researchers at IBM have overcome an important obstacle to building computers based on carbon nanotubes, by developing a way to selectively arrange transistors that were made using the carbon molecules. The achievement, described in the current issue of Nano Letters, could help make large-scale integrated circuits built out of carbon nanotubes possible, leading to ultrafast, low-power processors.
Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact

Schneier on Security: El Al Doesn't Trust the TSA

El Al Doesn't Trust the TSA

They want to do security themselves at Newark Airport, as they already do at four other U.S. airports.

No other airline has such an arrangement with U.S. officials, authorities acknowledged. At the four other airports, El Al has installed its own security software at bomb-detection machines, which authorities said is more sensitive than that used by American carriers.

Schneier on Security: El Al Doesn't Trust the TSA

Schneier on Security: The Problems with Data Mining

The Problems with Data Mining

Great op-ed in The New York Times on why the NSA's data mining efforts won't work, by Jonathan Farley, math professor at Harvard.

Schneier on Security: The Problems with Data Mining

Schneier on Security: Smart Profiling from the DHS

Smart Profiling from the DHS

About time:

Here's how it works: Select TSA employees will be trained to identify suspicious individuals who raise red flags by exhibiting unusual or anxious behavior, which can be as simple as changes in mannerisms, excessive sweating on a cool day, or changes in the pitch of a person's voice. Racial or ethnic factors are not a criterion for singling out people, TSA officials say. Those who are identified as suspicious will be examined more thoroughly; for some, the agency will bring in local police to conduct face-to-face interviews and perhaps run the person's name against national criminal databases and determine whether any threat exists. If such inquiries turn up other issues countries with terrorist connections, police officers can pursue the questioning or alert Federal counterterrorism agents. And of course the full retinue of baggage x-rays, magnetometers and other checks for weapons will continue.

Schneier on Security: Smart Profiling from the DHS