New feature!

Ladies and Gents,

I'd like to be the first to inform you of a new feature I'm recording/editing now. This will be a 5 to 6 minute podcast on current security topics. It is my hope to make this a bi-weekly event.

Some days I'll address particular questions from listeners while other times I will address particular topics such a bluetooth hacking, physical security, security management, etc. The first podcast will air on March 31, 2008.

If you have nay suggestions or if you'd like to submit questions, please send them to admin@thesecuritydialogue.org.

The New Equalizer?

As we approach the time of the year when we'll see more terrorist attacks, I wanted to post some videos of how the threat from VBIED is truly evolving. Just take a look and let me know what you think. Remember to practice OPSEC though.




This second video is posted by a guy on his mobile phone of the aftermath of the 7/7 attacks in the UK. I love citizen journalists. They can get in where big media outlets can't.



This last video is from a dump truck filled with explosives. You can see the shock wave and the blast expansion. Perfect illustration of what VBIED's could look and feel like.

FBI Mystery Man has been identified

The FBI has identified its mystery man as Scott Andrew Shain, born in 1955. The FBI says Shain was identified thanks to the help of the Social Security Administration. Who dimed him out? His parents apparently identified him by checking his picture on the FBI website.
For those of you who don't know or remember this the guy I talked about briefly last week when I mentioned "hide-and-go seek". While the FBI knows his name, aAgents still don't know the full extent of his criminal background, but they do know that he served in the U.S. Air Force and was from Boston.
Shain is now in federal custody on multiple counts of aggravated identity theft, such as stealing a dead man's identity. If you recall, this guy had 33 aliases and had a rap sheet for some of them. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't just a paranoid individual who suffered a mental illness and the aliases were a combination of personalities and/or identities to hide. I say that because unlike most identity thieves, he never sold his new identity and never turned it to profit for himself. As I read more, the more I'm suspicious of why he needed 33 aliases.