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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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Ricin as a Terrorist Tool
This paper (full paper behind paywall) -- from Environment International (2009) -- does a good job of separating fact from fiction: Abstract: In recent yearsThis...
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Trading Privacy for Convenience
Ray Wang makes an important point about trust and our data: This is the paradox. The companies contending to win our trust to manage our digital identities all...
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More on Feudal Security
Facebook regularly abuses the privacy of its users. Google has stopped supporting its popular RSS feeder. Apple prohibits all iPhone apps that are political orGame...
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Essays Related to NSA Spying Documents
Here's a quick list of some of my older writings that are related to the current NSA spying documents: "The Internet Is a Surveillance State ," 2013. The importance...
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Prosecuting Snowden
Edward Snowden broke the law by releasing classified information. This isn't under debate; it's something everyone with a security clearance knows. It's written...
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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
Interesting. Crazy as these theories are, those propagating them are not -- they’re quite normal, in fact. But recent scientific research tells us this much: if...
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Trust in IT
Ignore the sensationalist headline. This article is a good summary of the need for trust in IT, and provides some ideas for how to enable more of it. Virtually...
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Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers
Yesterday, we learned that the NSA received all calling records from Verizon customers for a three-month period starting in April. That's everything except themetadata...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Comic
A squid comic about the importance of precise language in security warnings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the...
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Audio Interview with Me
In this podcast interview, I talk about security, power, and the various things I have been thinking about recently.
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A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62% -- in a few hours...
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The Cost of Terrorism in Pakistan
This study claims "terrorism has cost Pakistan around 33.02% of its real national income" between the years 1973 and 2008, or about 1% per year. The St. Louis$100...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013)
I'm at the Sixth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2013). This year we're in Los Angeles, at USC -- hosted by CREATE. My description...
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The Problems with CALEA-II
The FBI wants a new law that will make it easier to wiretap the Internet. Although its claim is that the new law will only maintain the status quo, it's reallyeverything...
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The Security Risks of Unregulated Google Search
Someday I need to write an essay on the security risks of secret algorithms that become part of our infrastructure. This paper gives one example of that. Could...
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The Problems with Managing Privacy by Asking and Giving Consent
New paper from the Harvard Law Review by Daniel Solove: "Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma": Privacy self-management takes refuge in consent. It...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pronouns
The translated version of a Spanish menu contains the entry "squids in his (her, your) ink." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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