Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

for those fuzzy on the concept of Man in the Middle, here is a great essay from Bruce Schneier on it

Schneier on Security: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Bush signs wiretap law, gets sued

I saw a panel debate this one at the RSA conference. if I'm remembering it right - the government wanted the right to listen in on any foreign inbound or outbound calls. Actually I think they'd prefer getting all calls into their database for analysis but they knew better than ask for that one!

Bush signs wiretap law, gets sued

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

this one is interesting. I keep explaining to people about the black market of stolen user id's being on the black market - but this is a new twist. Here's 1,000 email accounts for sale so you can use them for sending out important messages about inheriting millions in Nigeria! ;)

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by spammers Zero Day ZDNet.com