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Security quotes of the week
Q: What could such a worm do on my phone?
-- F-Secure's
FAQ on the JailbreakMe iPhone vulnerabilities
A: Anything. It could do anything you can do on your phone, and more. So it could destroy or steal all of your data. Track your location. Spam your friends. Listen to your phone calls. Dial the presidents of every country in the world. Anything. And you would pay for all the charges it would create, too.
It's also clear that users should have different rights with respect to
each data type. We should be allowed to export, change, and delete
disclosed data, even if the social networking sites don't want us to. It's
less clear what rights we have for entrusted data -- and far less clear for
incidental data. If you post pictures from a party with me in them, can I
demand you remove those pictures -- or at least blur out my face?
-- Bruce
Schneier in "A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data"(Log in to post comments)
Security quotes of the week Posted Aug 12, 2010 15:04 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
The best part of that first one:
> Q: Are you telling me that it would be safer now to jailbreak my phone so I could install a PDF Warner?
Security quotes of the week Posted Aug 12, 2010 15:30 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link] I likeQ: Could it arrive via MMS messages? A: Thankfully, no, as PDF attachments fail in iPhone MMS messages. This is also known as security through incompatibility.(their bold)
Security quotes of the week Posted Aug 24, 2010 11:23 UTC (Tue) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
It's a little known fact that any picture showing Bruce Schneier's face will include a steganographic representation of the RSA algorithm, decss.c and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Blurring will *not* remove that.
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