dc0de’s & friends notes…

how could USB Flash drives that exhibit such a serious security hole be given one of the highest certificates for crypto devices? Even more importantly, perhaps – what is the value of a certification that fails to detect such holes?

via NIST-certified USB Flash drives with hardware encryption cracked – The H Security: News and Features.

So we can’t seem to trust the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification any longer.  Who does this testing?  Who is responsible for this?  Someone needs to figure it out ricky-tick.

This type of vulnerability is going to make using USB devices simply unacceptable for everyone.

“Using words such as “imposter” and “usurper,” an active-duty Army officer in Iraq has joined a California lawyer’s lawsuit intended to force President Barack Obama to prove he is a legal U.S. citizen, and therefore able to legally serve as the commander in chief.”

I fully support this suite, as both a citizen and a former soldier.  The legal requirements to obtain a passport, drivers license, or any other federally recognized identity document requires a verifiable birth certificate.

Obama has had every opportunity to produce an original, and could REQUEST an original from the state of Hawaii, however, he has decided to let this hang over him as the plague that it has become.

When will we find out if our President is legally sitting as Commander-in-Chief?

http://www.military.com/news/article/February-2009/officer-calls-obama-usurper-imposter-president.html?col=1186032325324&ESRC=army.nl