Security failures are usually human engineering

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A supposedly sophisticated interception of an FBI and Scotland Yard call turns out to depend on an ordinary conference invitation forwarded to a compromised personal email account. Dr. Dave then applies the same skeptical observer’s eye to a client account reset and reaches his durable conclusion: authorized people and weak procedures often expose information that technology itself protected.

12:01 · Consulting Philosophy

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Proposed recording date: 2012-02-04. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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