I was watching BBC News on EyeTV this morning, and caught the tail end of a horrific story about hundreds of French patients who received crippling, and sometimes fatal, overdoses of radiation.
Earlier this year, a major scandal erupted in France when it was discovered that between 1989 and 2006, two radiotherapy units had accidentally given [...]
From fraudwatchonline.com:
Research initially aimed at helping partially sighted customers use chip and PIN keypads has led to the creation of a device which can protect customers from “shoulder surfing”.
This is the term used for the practice whereby a “criminally motivated” bystander casually observes the PIN when paying for goods or services or getting money from [...]
An interesting new paper Reducing Shoulder-surfing by Using Gaze-based Password Entry
Abstract:
Shoulder-surfing — using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone’s shoulder, to get passwords, PINs and other sensitive personal information is a problem that has been difficult to overcome. When a user enters information using a keyboard, mouse, touch screen or any traditional input [...]
Carl Ellison (a cryptographer at Intel, a great guy) formulated what I call Ellison’s Law, which states that the userbase for strong cryptography declines by half with every additional keystroke or mouseclick required to make it work. Think about that when you’re designing tools.
–Cult of the Dead Cow
