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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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NSA Using Insecure Word Macros
There's an interesting message in the documents about Snowden that Vice magazine got out of the NSA with a FOIA request. At least in 2012, the NSA was using Word...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Beautiful Squid Sculpture
Two years ago, I posted a photograph of a beautiful giant bronze squid sculpture by Kirk McGuire. He has a new sculpture: a squid table base. it's also beautiful...
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Financial Cyber Risk Is Not Systemic Risk
This interesting essay argues that financial risks are generally not systemic risks, and instead are generally much smaller. That's certainly been our experience...
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1944 CIA Sabotage Manual
It makes for interesting reading. Someone noticed that parts of it read like standard modern office procedures....
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Wayz Data Poisoning
People who don't want Wayz routing cars through their neighborhoods are feeding it false data. It was here that Connor learned that some Waze warriors had launched...
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Inherent Bias in Recidivism Algorithm
Really good investigative reporting on the automatic algorithms used to predict recidivism rates....
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Long Article on Snowden's Attempts to Raise His Concerns Inside the NSA
Lots of details that demonstrate that Snowden did try to raise his concerns internally before going public, and that the NSA lied about this....
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Another Side-Channel Attack on PC Encryption
New paper: "Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs," by Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer. They recover keys acoustically...
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Hijacking the PC Update Process
There's a new report on security vulnerabilities in the PC initialization/update process, allowing someone to hijack it to install malware: One of the major things...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mechanical Squid
It's beautiful, from the Maker Faire Bay Area 2016....
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2016)
Earlier this week, I was at the ninth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted at Harvard University. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying...
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Stuxnet-Like Malware Discovered
There's a new piece of malware called Irongate, which is obviously inspired by Stuxnet. We don't know who is responsible for it. Slashdot thread....
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Stealth Falcon: New Malware from (Probably) the UAE
Citizen Lab has the details: This report describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by a sophisticated operator, which we call Stealth Falcon....
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The Fallibility of DNA Evidence
This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence. Most interesting to me are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in DNA matching: William...
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Arresting People for Walking Away from Airport Security
A proposed law in Albany, NY, would make it a crime to walk away from airport screening. Aside from wondering why county lawmakers are getting involved with what...
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Identifying People from their Driving Patterns
People can be identified from their "driver fingerprint": ...a group of researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California at San Diego...
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Friday Squid Blogging: More Squids
This research paper shows that the number of squids, and the number of cephalopods in general, has been steadily increasing over the past 60 years: Our analyses...
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