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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Deception in Fruit Flies
The wings of the Goniurellia tridens fruit fly have images of an ant on them, to deceive predators: "When threatened, the fly flashes its wings to give the appearance...
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The Story of the Bomb Squad at the Boston Marathon
This is interesting reading, but I'm left wanting more. What are the lessons here? How can we do this better next time? Clearly we won't be able to anticipate...
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More NSA Revelations
This New York Times story on the NSA is very good, and contains lots of little tidbits of new information gleaned from the Snowden documents. The agency’s Dishfire...
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badBIOS
Good story of badBIOS, a really nasty piece of malware. The weirdest part is how it uses ultrasonic sound to jump air gaps. Ruiu said he arrived at the theory...
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Friday Squid Blogging: 8-Foot Giant Squid Pillow
Make your own 8-foot giant squid pillow. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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A Template for Reporting Government Surveillance News Stories
This is from 2006 -- I blogged it here -- but it's even more true today. Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks...
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Reading Group at Harvard Law School
In Spring Semester, I'm running a reading group -- which seems to be a formal variant of a study group -- at Harvard Law School on "Security, Power, and the Internet...
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Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone's Wi-Fi
This article talks about applications in retail, but the possibilities are endless. Every smartphone these days comes equipped with a WiFi card. When the cardpick...
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NSA Eavesdropping on Google and Yahoo Networks
The Washington Post reported that the NSA is eavesdropping on the Google and Yahoo private networks -- the code name for the program is MUSCULAR. I may write more...
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The Battle for Power on the Internet
We're in the middle of an epic battle for power in cyberspace. On one side are the traditional, organized, institutional powers such as governments and large multinational...
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What the NSA Can and Cannot Do
Good summary from the London Review of Books.
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Arguing for NSA-Level Internet Surveillance
Jack Goldsmith argues that we need the NSA to surveil the Internet not for terrorism reasons, but for cyberespionage and cybercrime reasons. Daniel Gallington ...
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Understanding the Threats in Cyberspace
The primary difficulty of cyber security isn't technology -- it's policy. The Internet mirrors real-world society, which makes security policy online as complicated...
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US Government Monitoring Public Internet in Real Time
Here's a demonstration of the US government's capabilities to monitor the public Internet. Former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden was on the Acela train between...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Dynamic Biophotonics in Squid
Female squid exhibit sexually dimorphic tunable leucophores and iridocytes. Just so you know. Here's the story in more accessible language. As usual, you can...
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Book Review: Cyber War Will Not Take Place
Thomas Rid, Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Oxford University Press, 2013. Cyber war is possibly the most dangerous buzzword of the Internet era. The fear-inducing...
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Cognitive Biases About Violence as a Negotiating Tactic
Interesting paper: Max Abrahms, "The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics," International Studies Quarterly, 2013: ...
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DARPA Contest for Fully-Automated Network Defense
DARPA is looking for a fully-automated network defense system: What if computers had a "check engine" light that could indicate new, novel security problems? What...
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