Information Sources

From Blindside

[edit] Documents

• Illustrative Risks to the Public in the Use of Computer Systems and Related Technology Summarizes as one-liners most of the interesting cases over the past decades from RISKS.
• Identification of Sources of Failures and their Propagation in Critical Infrastructures from 12 Years of Public Failure Reports PDF
• The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security Marcus Ranum points out the bad ideas that need to be squashed out of the field of information assurance

[edit] Blogs

• Light Blue Touchpaper Cambridge University Computer Laboratory security group
• Blogzilla Ian Brown on security, privacy and human rights
• Spyblog Surveillance developments
• Jason Kitcat on e-voting technology and its problems
• Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft UK National Technical Officer, on privacy, security and open standards
• Bruce Schneier, all-round security guru
• Emergent Chaos: security, privacy, liberty and economics
• Kim Cameron's Identity Blog
• Ben Laurie blathering
• Freedom to Tinker by Ed Felten: freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own