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By Eddie Schwartz  (@eddieschwartz and LinkedIn)

Security today is sold by three may motivations. FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

Security sucks because there are certain factors that you cannot do anything about. E.g. if you get a mail from your kids school that 10 children have fallen ill to a new disease, would you open it?

Eddie further highlighted that there is a significant imbalance between the defense and offence. Offence runs broad organizations that make money from there activities (Cybercrime) whereas defense is costing organizations money just to make sure nothing happens (IT Security)

There is quite a different perception if compliance aids security between security officers and information officers.

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By Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror)

Jacob had to start his talk without slides due to technical difficulties, but he did alright.

First off he talks about some treats against our privacy. Political plans for nation wide key escrow and wide scale data retention are popping up all over the western world.

The Australian web filter against child pornography has proven that these kind of filters don’t work. Before it was deployed nation wide the filter already succeeded in creeping its scope by blocking a dentists web site.

Jacob, personally, specifically cares about cases where Tor is used to censor people.Censorship will never serve humanity and in fact humanity becomes a slave to the truth of its sensors.

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