More wonderful real world security
Security in the real world is, at the same time, both a wonderful source of comedy and a reminder not to take ourselves too seriously. You can have all the ‘best practice’ your pipe can smoke but nothing we do can stop the amazing creativity of the human link.
We’ve covered sleeping bank guards; security guards who had their guns taken by the thieves; the theft of millions from drive by snooping of unsecured wireless networks; drug rings inside airports; guns inside prisons and (my favourite) the ultra secure 27-character password the FBI found written down next to the PC.
It seems no matter how rich and committed the defender there’s a disaster waiting in the wings. So today we find Intel in the gun. These guys own serious amounts of intellectual property and take protecting it very seriously.
Intel confirmed the code posted to the internet this week is, in fact, the master key to their new copyright protection technology, known as HDCP. If we remember the size of budget these guys have to secure stuff the best part is this quote:
“It remains unknown who posted it and how they were able to get the code, Waldrop said.
That’s not to gloat of course, Intel today but who of us tomorrow? To quote Mr Bennet in Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, “What are we but sport for our neighbours, and to laugh at them in our turn.”
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