http://www.emergentchaos.com/ The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo of the Blogosphere en-us adam+ec@homeport.org 2008-05-10T14:01:42-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/call_me_crazy.html 4565@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ breach analysis 2008-05-10T14:01:42-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/credit_bureaus_and_outsou.html The "I've Been Mugged" blog has a great three part series on outsourcing by credit bureaus: "Is It Wise For Credit Bureaus To Outsource To Foreign Call Center Firms? (Part 1)," "part 2" and "part 3." He digs deep into... 4564@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ background checks 2008-05-09T11:03:18-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/security_cameras_function.html Use of CCTV images for court evidence has so far been very poor, according to Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, the officer in charge of the Metropolitan police unit. "CCTV was originally seen as a preventative measure," Neville told... 4562@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ Privacy 2008-05-07T11:14:14-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/hiring_fraudsters.html 4561@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ background checks 2008-05-05T11:00:22-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/spending_to_protect_asset.html There's a story in the New York Times about a bike rental program in Washington DC. It's targeted at residents, not tourists, and has a subscription-based model. Improved technology allows programs to better protect bicycles. In Washington, SmartBike subscribers who... 4560@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ Economics 2008-05-04T13:02:18-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/a_question_of_ethics.html Various estimates have been made regarding the quantity of personal identifying information which has been exposed by various mechanisms. Obviously, though, we only know about what we can see, so seeing more would make such estimates better. One way to... 4557@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ breach analysis 2008-05-03T18:58:39-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/fasilyce_upon_reading.html Dear Mr. Banks, Much as I enjoy your work, it is entirely dis-congruous to your readers to insert words known to neither the Oxford English Dictionary or the internet (as indexed here, here or here) whose meanings are not rapidly... 4556@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ books 2008-05-03T13:39:26-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/brightening_up_the_day_fr.html I would estimate that 2/3 of the calls I get are from people trying to sell me things I neither need nor want. Of those, over half are outsourcing services. Of the remainder, recruiters are over half. There are also... 4554@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ Amusements 2008-05-01T19:29:30-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/05/italy_posts_tax_return_da.html How much do you make? How surprised would you be to learn that your magic number had been posted on the Internet by the government? And that it was not by mistake, as in other recent breaches of privacy.... 4553@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ breach analysis 2008-05-01T12:14:58-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/04/quantum_debate.html The debate about Shor's Algorithm (which I blogged about a couple days ago) continues. Rod Van Meter has a good blog post about it here. While there are plenty of people who have just wholesale dismissed the Hill/Viamontes paper outright,... 4551@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ Science 2008-04-30T19:40:21-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/04/bushs_law_less_safe_less.html I'd like to review two recent books on the war on terror: "Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice" by by Eric Lichtblau, and "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror" by David Cole... 4550@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ books 2008-04-30T01:10:12-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/04/everybody_run_crispins_go.html My buddy, collaborator and co-worker Crispin Cowan has started a blog. The first post is "Security Is Simple: Only Use Perfect Software." [Update: Added a link to Crispin's home page, because some readers apparently have trouble with a search engine.]... 4549@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ blogging 2008-04-29T22:25:30-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/04/quantum_uncertainty.html Technology Review has a pair of articles on D-Wave's adiabatic quantum computer. Quantum pioneer Seth Lloyd writes in "Riding D-Wave" about quantum computing in general, adiabatic quantum computing, and D-Wave's efforts to show that they've actually built a quantum computer.... 4548@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ emergent chaos 2008-04-29T00:50:45-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/04/the_messenger_is_the_mess.html In a blog post entitled "Lending Tree A Little Late In Cutting Off Network Access?", I read that in the recent Lending Tree breach: several former employees may have helped a handful of mortgage lenders gain access to Lending Tree's... 4546@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ breach analysis 2008-04-28T20:29:01-05:00 http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2008/04/who_watches_the_watchlist.html The idea of "watchlists" has proliferated as part of the War on Terror. There are now more than 63 of them: As part of its regular "risk management" service, which provides screening, tracing, and identity and background checks on potential... 4545@http://www.emergentchaos.com/ background checks 2008-04-28T10:46:47-05:00