The state of insecurity and thesis reminiscing
The very suspicious penguins were originally reported by Bruce Schneier, definitely a blog worth following if you’re interested in either Big Brother’s encroachment on us all or the general cluelessness regarding electronic security issues.
Schneier’s idea of a real concentrated Individual Rights campaign is a very good one - thus far all efforts to question authority have pretty much been lost in the noise. A single front will help matters.
And yeah, been a Schneier-reader for a long while. My initial plan regarding my master’s thesis was to do it on everyday corporate cryptographical applications, and at that time (mid ‘96) the
definitive volume on the topic was Applied Cryptography, which is still highly regarded. However, due to one reason or the other, the cryptography topic fell by the wayside, and I embarked on the road to describe a way to revolutionize a thoroughly proprietary operating system with standard interfaces. And yeah, once I locate the elusive .pdf of the final version, the outdatedness of the study will be quite painful.
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