Leopard Security Roundup

Thomas Ptacek of Matasano Security posted a very good review of the various Leopard security features on their blog, matasano chargen.

Fun with fingerprints

Someone's written a howto on creating false fingerprints, suitable for fooling commercial grade fingerprint sensors here.

Defeat a Kensington laptop lock

Joy. So much for leaving my laptop unattended at Borders when I want to use the restroom.

See the pathetically easy details on unlocking a Kensington laptop lock here.

Smart Water

Basically, invisible paint with unique microdots in it. The idea is you paint your stuff with it, and when the police find stolen stuff, they can figure out who owns it. Of course it only took about ten seconds for Bruce Schneier to point out the obvious problem in his blog - just paint someone else's stuff and call the cops.