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http://www.cert.org/csirts/national/contest_2008.html

CERT Coordination Center and the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) jointly held the first-ever international competition honoring best practices and advances in safeguarding the security of computer systems and networks.

Two papers are presented here
# TWNCERT Social Engineering Drill: The Best Practice to Protect against Social Engineering Attacks in E-mail Form (pdf)

# National Spam Threat Management: With Case Studies of Spam Incidents Analysis (pdf)

Subtopia: Shipping Justice

http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2008/06/shipping-justice.html





The box is 10-by-6-foot, with an eight foot-high ceiling. Inside nothing exists but cold white walls, a platform with a measly mattress, a stainless steel toilet/sink fixture, a florescent light, and a slitted window to meet the bare minimum requirement for a human’s right to natural light.
Needless to say, the bright crate isn’t delivering a diplomatic gesture of internationally prized oranges. And thankfully not a menacing experimental crowd control robot, either. It’s actually a scaled replica of a maximum security prison cell at Guantanamo Bay where detainees are known to spend up to 23 hours a day in total isolation.