A seventy-five-cent accounting error at Berkeley in 1986 led Clifford Stoll to a KGB-linked intruder. The founding text of intrusion investigation, and still the best argument against ignoring small anomalies.
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August 1, 2023
Joel Brenner sets the demand for transparency against the need for secrecy and finds that most institutions have no coherent answer to the collision. “Glass Houses” is less a privacy book than an account of what secrecy now costs, who can still maintain it, and how little of it survives in a world where nearly every action leaves a record somewhere.
February 23, 2023
Phishing and pretexting work because they target people rather than systems — and the people they target most successfully are the ones with authority to move money or grant access. No amount of security spending closes a gap that opens when someone helpful is asked a plausible question. This piece covers the main forms these attacks take, what they cost, and the defenses that hold up in practice.