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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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How Changing Technology Affects Security
Security is a tradeoff, a balancing act between attacker and defender. Unfortunately, that balance is never static. Changes in technology affect both sides. Society...
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The Keywords the DHS Is Using to Analyze Your Social Media Posts
According to this document, received by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is combing through the gazillions of...
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Themes from the RSA Conference
Last week was the big RSA Conference in San Francisco: something like 20,000 people. From what I saw, these were the major themes on the show floor: Companies...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Vision
Some squid can see aspects of light that are invisible to humans, including polarized light. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Liars and Outliers: The Big Idea
My big idea is a big question. Every cooperative system contains parasites. How do we ensure that society's parasites don't destroy society's systems? It's all...
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GPS Spoofers
Great movie-plot threat: Financial institutions depend on timing that is accurate to the microsecond on a global scale so that stock exchanges in, say, London...
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State Department Redacts Wikileaks Cables
The ACLU filed a FOIA request for a bunch of cables that Wikileaks had already released complete versions of. This is what happened: The agency released redacted...
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Detect Which Social Networking Sites Website Visitors Are Logged Into
Clever hack.
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FBI Special Agent and Counterterrorism Expert Criticizes the TSA
Good essay. Nothing I haven't said before, but it's good to hear it from someone with a widely different set of credentials than I have.
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"Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake"
Good essay on the dangers of cyberwar rhetoric -- and the cyberwar arms race.
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Liars and Outliers: Interview on The Browser
I was asked to talk about five books related to privacy. You're best known as a security expert but our theme today is "trust". How would you describe the connection...
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U.S. Federal Court Rules that it is Unconstitutional for the Police to Force Someone to Decrypt their Laptop
A U.S. Federal Court aruled that it is unconstitutional for the police to force someone to decrypt their laptop computer: Thursday
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Fly to Save Energy
There's a new study that shows that squid are faster in the air than in the water. Squid of many species have been seen to 'fly' using the same jet-propulsion...
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Liars and Outliers News
The book is selling well. (Signed copies are still available on the website.) All the online stores have it, and most bookstores as well. It is available inavailable...
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Press Mentions
One article on me, and a podcast about my RSA talk next week.
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Mention of Cryptography in a Rap Song
The new movie Safe House features the song "No Church in the Wild," by Kanye West, which includes this verse: I live by you, desire I stand by you, walk through...
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Computer Security when Traveling to China
Interesting: When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a...
From Schneier on Security