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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 …
From Schneier on Security
Breaking Taiwan's Digital ID
There's a serious random-number generation flaw in the cryptographic systems used to protect the Taiwanese digital ID. Article and paper.
From Schneier on Security
A New Postal Privacy Product
The idea is basically to use indirection to hide physical addresses. You would get a random number to give to your correspondents, and the post office would use...
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The NSA's New Risk Analysis
As I recently reported in the Guardian, the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent...
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Me on Surveillance
This is a video of me talking about surveillance and privacy, both relating to the NSA and more generally.
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Why It's Important to Publish the NSA Programs
The Guardian recently reported on how the NSA targets Tor users, along with details of how it uses centrally placed servers on the Internet to attack individual...
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Silk Road Author Arrested Due to Bad Operational Security
Details of how the FBI found the administrator of Silk Road, a popular black market e-commerce site. Despite the elaborate technical underpinnings, however, the...
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How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID
The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Opens spring 2014. 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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Developments in Microphone Technology
What's interesting is that this matchstick-sized microphone can be attached to drones. Conventional microphones work when sound waves make a diaphragm move, creating...
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Is Cybersecurity a Profession?
A National Academy of Sciences panel says no: Sticking to the quality control aspect of the report, professionalization, it says, has the potential to attractreport...
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On Anonymous
Gabriella Coleman has published an interesting analysis of the hacker group Anonymous: Abstract: Since 2010, digital direct action, including leaks, hacking and...
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On Secrecy
"When everything is classified, then nothing is classified." I should suppose that moral, political, and practical considerations would dictate that a very first...
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My TEDx Talk
I spoke at TEDxCambridge last month on security and power. Here's the video.
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NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody
Two new stories based on the Snowden documents. This is getting silly. General Alexander just lied about this to Congress last week. The old NSA tactic of hiding...
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Will Keccak = SHA-3?
Last year, NIST selected Keccak as the winner of the SHA-3 hash function competition. Yes, I would have rather my own Skein had won, but it was a good choice. ...
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WhoIs Privacy and Proxy Service Abuse
ICANN has a draft study that looks at abuse of the Whois database. This study, conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, analyzes...
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Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps Internet backbone through secret-agreements with major U.S. telcos., but the U.S. government...
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Friday Squid Blogging: A Squid that Fishes
The Grimalditeuthis bonplandi is the only known squid to use its tenticles to fish: Its tentacles are thin and fragile, and almost always break off when it's captured...
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