The 5GBioShield sells for £339.60, and the description sounds like snake oil: …its website, which describes it as a USB key that “provides protection for your home and family, thanks to the wearable holographic nano-layer catalyser, which can be worn or placed near to a smartphone or any other electrical, radiation or EMF [electromagnetic field] … Read More “Bogus Security Technology: An Anti-5G USB Stick” »
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A decade ago, the Doghouse was a regular feature in both my email newsletter Crypto-Gram and my blog. In it, I would call out particularly egregious — and amusing — examples of cryptographic “snake oil.” I dropped it both because it stopped being fun and because almost everyone converged on standard cryptographic libraries, which meant … Read More “The Doghouse: Crown Sterling” »
A recent article overhyped the release of EverCrypt, a cryptography library created using formal methods to prove security against specific attacks. The Quantum magazine article sets off a series of “snake-oil” alarm bells. The author’s Github README is more measured and accurate, and illustrates what a cool project this really is. But it’s not “hacker-proof … Read More “Unhackable Cryptography?” »