The Psychology of Security

Bruce Schneier, security main man, just wrote an excellent essay called The Psychology of Security.

Interrogation

If you are interested in the subject of interrogation, this thorough 31-page article called The Dark Art of Interrogation by Mark Bowden is a worthy read. It focuses mainly on the grey area between interrogation and torture.

Data Mining

A good article on data mining - the extraction of 'hidden' data from large amounts of data. It's called I Have Nothing To Hide - or the Sainsbury's Lesson.

The Lie About the Lie Detector

Oh, the number of times you have been told by people on your television that it is possible to cheat a lie detector and thought "Yeah, well - how?!". No more. I give to you The Lie About the Lie Detector - a 220-page all-you-need-to-know PDF on the subject, created by AntiPolygraph.org.

There is nothing like the feeling of "I'm not supposed to know this".

Efterretningsvirksomhed

Hvis du er interesseret i efterretningsvirksomhed, bliver du nødt til at læse Lars R. Møller: Operation Hurricane - Efterretningsvirksomhed før og nu. Jeg er virkelig imponeret over det arbejde, der ligger i den bog, og den grad af information, jeg føler jeg har modtaget efter at have læst den. Den behandler emnet teoretisk, og kommer samtidig med en masse historiske cases. Læs den!

Forhørsteknik

I anledning af sæsonpremieren på den fremragende serie 24 timer - 4. sæson i DK, 5. sæson i US - får du lige CIA's gamle forhørsmanual fra 1963 KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation, og den kortere opfølger fra 1983 Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual (selve den scannede version af sidstnævnte her). Lisa Haugaard har skrevet en god artikel bl.a. om disse to tekster, ved navn Textbook Repression: US Training Manuals Declassified.