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Really: Since they are hard to conceal, the study says, noses would work well for identification in covert surveillance. The researchers say noses have been overlooked in the growing field of biometrics, studies into ways of identifying distinguishing traits in people. "Noses are prominent facial features and yet their use as a biometric has been largely unexplored," said the University...

The One2Flush Anti-Siphoning Fill Valve refills the tank and bowl with a minimal amount of water necessary. The key feature is the water-restricting fill valve. This red valve at the end of the fill-tube that attached the overflow tube to regulate the amount of water that continues to rinse the bowl while the tank fills. Simply cutting back on the quart of water or more on that unnecessarily rinse with each flush can save thousands of gallons of water a year.

Regulates the Amount of Water Used to Rinse the Toilet Bowl

Fits any standard toilet on the market

Easy to install

Adjustable micro fill valve: 8 -13 1/2 inches

Water saving

Price: $10.99

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Use the Easy Mount Slim-Fit Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate to install low voltage cables behind your flat panel TV, your amplifier or other audio and video devices. The wall plate can be installed upright or upside down. The Easy Mount Slim-Fit Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plates are designed to be installed without “Low Voltage Mounting Plates” or “Old Work Mud Rings”. The mounting wings are molded into the Easy Mount wall plate and fasten tightly against the back of the drywall. The Easy Mount Slim-Fit Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate has the capacity of a double gang plate-in a single gang profile.

Directs cables to and from the inside of your wall

Ideal for placement behind flat panel TVs

Flush mount

Double gang plate in a single gang profile

For use with low voltage cables

Slim-fit design for use in homes with concrete foundations

Price: $3.99

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Also available in other colors:
DataComm Electronics 45-0009-LA Easy Mount Slim-Fit Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate, Almond
DataComm Electronics 45-0008-LA Easy Mount Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate, Almond
DataComm Electronics 45-0008-IV Easy Mount Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate, Ivory
DataComm Electronics 45-0008-BK Easy Mount Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate, Black
DataComm Electronics 45-0008-WH Easy Mount Recessed Low Voltage Cable Plate, White

Good legal paper on the limits of identity cards: Stephen Mason and Nick Bohm, "Identity and its Verification," in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number 1, Jan 2010. Those faced with the problem of how to verify a person's identity would be well advised to ask themselves the question, 'Identity with what?' An enquirer equipped with the answer...

Can you hear that? That’s the sound of air escaping as we all finally recover from the RSA conference. Rich and Martin are back, and Zach… never left (but did celebrate a birthday last week). We do a quick recap of RSA and then dig into the security news… much of which had nothing to do with the conference. Weird.

Network Security Podcast, Episode 188, March 9, 2010
Time:  32:01

Show Notes:

• Great coverage of Martin’s RSA panel on disclosure. One of the first with an actual user on the panel.
• Government declassifies parts of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
• Police get webcam pictures in school spy cases.
• Experts dismiss end to end encryption claims. Bunch of gross generalizations.
• Oops- Vodaphone distributes infected phone.
• … and Energizer distributes malware in USB battery software.
• Tonight’s music: 

The One2Flush Toilet Repair Kit brings the high quality of the One2Flush conversion valves to toilet replacement parts. The IAPMO certification to the durability of the flush valves and fill valves extends to even the smaller parts. The high-quality, 440 grade stainless steel bolts and oversize conical tank gaskets eliminate leak possibilities from the tank. The double nut feature ensures that the tank is sealed prior to attaching the bowl. The lower cushion washers aid in securing a connection to the bowl. The stainless steel wing nuts make tightening the tank to bowl eliminates the need for a wrench and the possibility of over-tightening.

High quality replacement parts for most standard toilets

Double nut feature to ensure tank is sealed

Oversize conical tank gasket to eliminate leak possibilities

Stainless steel wing nuts

High quality 440 stainless steel bolts

IAPMO certification

Price: $8.63

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Interesting commentary: I don't think this is really a case about ISP liability at all. It is a case about the use of a person's image, without their consent, that generates commercial value for someone else. That is the essence of the Italian law at issue in this case. It is also how the right of privacy was first established...

The photo sensor turns lights/appliances on at dusk and you may set the timer for off in 2, 4, 6, or 8 hours, or at dawn. It accepts three 3-prong plugs and has a heavy duty cord with a grounded plug.

Photoelectric sensor turns lights/appliances on at dusk, or off at dawn or after 2, 4, 6, or 8 hours

Accepts 3-prong plug

Heavy-duty cord

Manual override

Grounded plug

Price: $21.99

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The "Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (U.S. Domestic Version)" (also can be found here, here, and here) outlines exactly what Microsoft will do upon police request. Here's a good summary of what's in it: The Global Criminal Compliance Handbook is a quasi-comprehensive explanatory document meant for law enforcement officials seeking access to Microsoft's stored user information. It also...

Snort was one of the first security tools I ever used.  When I was working in a small computer lab years ago, I set up a Snort sensor just to see what was there.  And there was a lot in that particular environment.  I’ve used it many times since then and I found out at RSA that the first Sourcefire implementation I performed is still in place, basically unchanged since I left.  This is why I always take the opportunity to talk to Marty Roesch at Sourcefire if I can at RSAC.  This time I got a chance to talk to him about the omnipresent APT (he prefer’s using the term APA, coined by @nselby and others), the security existential crisis, the work Sourcefire is doing with Immunet, the Cloud and Sourcefire’s virtual appliances.  All that noise you hear in the background is the Securosis Recovery Breakfast. 

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Tomorrow at 3:00 PM EST, stop by White House Live or the White House Facebook App for a real-time chat with DHS Secretary Napolitano.

Go ahead and figure out your questions now and stop by tomorrow and maybe you’ll get your question answered. Remember, this is an aviation security chat, so if you have questions about carnivorous plants, it’s probably not the best forum.

Speaking of the Secretary, earlier today she announced President Obama's intent to nominate retired Army Major General Robert A. Harding as the new appointee for the job of TSA Administrator. Take a gander over at C-SPAN.

Thanks,

Blogger Bob
TSA Blog Team

Funny: MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Responding to recent public outcries over its handling of private data, search giant Google offered a wide-ranging and eerily well-informed apology to its millions of users Monday. "We would like to extend our deepest apologies to each and every one of you," announced CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking from the company's Googleplex headquarters. "Clearly there have been some...

Maxsa’s Park Right Parking Stop are designed to help you park efficiently. Parking Stops bring your car to a stop, without potential dents or scratches from pulling in too far. Built-in rubber anti-slip pads with keep Parking Stop from moving on smooth floors or driveways. Doubles as a wheel chock when changing tires or performing repairs.

Also works great as a wheel chock when changing tires or performing repairs

Made of durable high impact plastic

Cold resistant to -22 degrees F

Extending bar keeps stop from moving

Built in rubber and anti-slip pads further prevent stop from moving on smooth floors or driveways

High visibility yellow

Price: $12.95

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How not to destroy evidence: In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents, records show. The article wasn't explicit about this -- odd, as it's the main question any reader would...

The Westek Indoor Digital Wall Switch Timer controls lighting fixtures with a full digital display. There are 7 On and 7 Off settings per day and the battery backup saves settings during a power outage. It mounts flush with the wall and you may pair this Timer with any decorative single rocker switch.

Controls lighting fixtures

7 on and 7 off settings per day

Battery backup saves settings in power outages

Full digital display

Mounts flush with the wall

Price: $29.98

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I’ve been a member of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium [(ISC)2] for nearly a decade; I passed my CISSP test in November of 2002 and don’t have to worry much about CPE’s until at least 2011.  So when I was offered an opportunity to talk to Hord Tipton, Executive Director of the (ISC)2, I didn’t hesitate to take them up on the offer.  We started off easy, talking about what’s new at the (ISC)2, and the Safe & Secure Online Program.  Then we moved on to the harder questions, like “What have you done for me lately?” and “What are you doing about people who shouldn’t be CISSP’s in the first place?”  The (ISC)2 is never going to make all of us who are certified happy, and that they are taking some steps to address concerns about unqualified practitioners, but it’d be nice if they were a little more public about it.  Oh, and you’ll hear at the end that the (ISC)2 definitely accepts listening to podcasts for CPE’s.  I forgot to ask about producing them.

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Interesting paper: "A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users." Abstract. Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interesting from a security and privacy point of view because they store large amounts of sensitive personal user data. In this paper, we introduce...

It’s hard doing interviews on the showroom floor at RSAC.  Even the relatively quiet places are incredibly noisy when you get right down to it.  The good thing is it hopefully masked the worst of my mispronunciation of Roel Schouwenberg’s name.  Roel is the Senior Anti-Virus Researcher at Kaspersky Lab and spent some time talking to me in the Threat Post booth on the showroom floor at RSA 2010.  We started off talking about the omnipresent APT, moved into slicing apart signature-based AV and end up on organized crime and what the future may bring. 

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Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro Internet Security, and I met in one of the quieter hallways of the 2010 RSA Convention.  Of course, ‘quiet’ is a relative term when it comes to RSA, but the audio came out acceptable in any case.  We talked about several of the new products Astaro is offering this year, including Astaro Mail Archiving, Astaro Wireless Security and Astaro RED.  We finished the conversation talking about Jack Daniel’s new position at Astaro, social media and Security BSides.  I think Astaro is one of the few security companies that actually get social media, in large part thanks to Jack. 

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Spring is right around the corner (we know if you are in the Midwest or East Coast you’re probably thinking…”really?”, but it’s true!). Day light savings time is 3/14, and soon enough Spring will be sprung with BBQs, baseball and outdoor fun. Are you ready? If not, we just added a TON of new Smart Solar products. Smart Solar is a new company we are working with to provide you with some cool products for your yard.

Check out this link to see what we’ve got!