Dickie's Securities

The Economist has a fine new article on how biometrics may fail as a border crossing tool. Instead of making the passage across state borders quicker, they might actually slow things down.

There's a new virus in town that spreads itself via an attachment. The new part is that the email purports to come from the FBI and it warns the reader that she may have been monitored looking at illegal sites.

Update on ChoicePoint's security breach: Bruce Schneier has some fine words on the topic.