Low-tech anti-surveillance tool for the OLPC XO-1

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

After reading several articles about the alleged spying that was enabled by a Pennsylvania school district via its one-to-one MacBook, and seeing discussion on a variety of mailing lists, I’ve decided to implement my own zero-cost, no-hassle solution to the problem for the OLPC XO-1‘s camera. This should be able to be adopted in deployments [...]

Personal Security: the Secret Question and Answer

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

In this session, we’ll explore some parts of infosec which should be taught in primary school. We’re all too smart to use the same password on multiple sites, right? While most people, I included, cannot say “yes” to the first question (at least not for everything), that alone is not enough. This is because no [...]