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In this issue:

  • Feudal Security
  • E-Mail Security in the Wake of Petraeus
  • Squids on the "Economist" Cover
  • IT for Oppression
  • Dictators Shutting Down the Internet
  • Book Review: "Against Security"

from the December 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-12.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 1:14am MDT

In this issue:

  • Stoking Cyber Fears
  • Hacking TSA PreCheck
  • Encryption in Cloud Computing
  • The Risks of Trusting Experts

from the November 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-11.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 11:19am MDT

In this issue:

  • Keccak Is SHA-3
  • What I Wrote Just Before the SHA-3 Announcement
  • Recent Developments in Password Cracking
  • Master Keys
  • When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?

from the October 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-10.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 10:30am MDT

In this issue:

  • The Importance of Security Engineering
  • Security at the 9/11 WTC Memorial
  • Poll: Americans Like the TSA
  • Five "Neglects" in Risk Management
  • Is iPhone Security Really this Good?

from the September 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-09.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 10:14am MDT

In this issue:

  • Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks
  • Cryptocat
  • Yet Another Risk of Storing Everything in the Cloud
  • Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
  • Police Sting Operation Yields No Mobile Phone Thefts
  • Remote Scanning Technology

from the August 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-08.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 9:03am MDT

In this issue:

  • So You Want to Be a Security Expert
  • Rand Paul Takes on the TSA
  • On Securing Potentially Dangerous Virology Research
  • The Failure of Anti-Virus Companies to Catch Military Malware
  • E-Mail Accounts More Valuable than Bank Accounts
  • "Top Secret America' on the Post-9/11 Cycle of Fear and Funding

from the July 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-07.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 7:26am MDT

In this issue:

  • The Vulnerabilities Market and the Future of Security
  • Cyberwar Treaties
  • Flame
  • My Last Post About Ethnic Profiling at Airports
  • Kip Hawley and Me
  • Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2012)

from the June 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-06.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 7:24am MDT

In this issue:

  • The Trouble with Airport Profiling
  • Hawley Channels His Inner Schneier
  • TSA Behavioral Detection Statistics
  • Stolen Phone Database
  • "Liars & Outliers" Update
  • Overreacting to Potential Bombs
  • A Foiled Terrorist Plot
  • Fear and the Attention Economy
  • Amazing Round of "Split or Steal"

from the May 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-05.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 7:23am MDT

In this issue:

  • Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
  • Congressional Testimony on the TSA
  • Bomb Threats As a Denial-of-Service Attack
  • Can the NSA Break AES?
  • Rare Spanish Enigma Machine
  • Buying Exploits on the Grey Market
  • Hacking Critical Infrastructure

from the April 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-04.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 7:10am MDT

In this issue:

  • "Liars and Outliers": The Big Idea
  • "Liars and Outliers": Interview on The Browser
  • "Liars and Outliers" Update
  • Lousy Random Numbers Cause Insecure Public Keys
  • Video Shows TSA Full-Body Scanner Failure
  • Themes from the RSA Conference
  • How Changing Technology Affects Security

from the March 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-03.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 4:12am MDT

In this issue:

  • Liars and Outliers Update
  • Possibly the Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet
  • What Happens When the Court Demands You Decrypt a Document and You Forget the Key?
  • Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint"
  • The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication

from the February 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-02.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 4:11am MDT

In this issue:

  • The TSA Proves its Own Irrelevance
  • Abolishing the Department of Homeland Security
  • "Going Dark" vs. a "Golden Age of Surveillance"
  • "Chinese Hacking" of iBahn Internet Services
  • Liars and Outliers News

from the January 15, 2012 Crypto-Gram Newsletter
by Bruce Schneier
read by Dan Henage

Direct download: crypto-gram-12-01.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 2:09am MDT