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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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Reverse-Engineering a Zero-Day Exploit from the Hacking Team Data Dump
Last July, a still-anonymous hacker broke into the network belonging to the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team, and dumped an enormous amount of its proprietary...
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Counterfeit Theater Tickets in New York
Counterfeiters are makingtickets for the Broadway show "Hamilton." Counterfeiting is much easier when the person you're passing the fakes off to doesn't know what...
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Match Fixing in Tennis
The BBC and Buzzfeed are jointly reporting on match fixing in tennis. Their story is based partially on leaked documents and partly on data analysis. BuzzFeed News...
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Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives?
Jonathan Zittrain proposes a very interesting hypothetical: Suppose a laptop were found at the apartment of one of the perpetrators of last year's Paris attacks...
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Spamming Someone from PayPal
Troy Hunt has identified a new spam vector. PayPal allows someone to send someone else a $0 invoice. The spam is in the notes field. But it's a legitimate e-mail...
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Fighting DRM in the W3C
Cory Doctorow has a good post on the EFF website about how they're trying to fight digital rights management software in the World Wide Web Consortium. So we came...
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Sean Penn's Opsec
This article talks about the opsec used by Sean Penn surrounding his meeting with El Chapo. Security experts say there aren't enough public details to fully analyze...
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The Internet of Things that Talks About You Behind Your Back
SilverPush is an Indian startup that's trying to figure out all the different computing devices you own. It embeds inaudible sounds into the webpages you read and...
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Michael Hayden and the Dutch Government Are against Crypto Backdoors
Last week, former NSA Director Michael Hayden made a very strong argument against deliberately weakening security products by adding backdoors: Americans' safety...
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Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash Had the Most Discovered Vulnerabilities in 2015
Interesting analysis: Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this year? The winner is none other than Apple's Mac OS X, with 384 vulnerabilities...
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IT Security and the Normalization of Deviance
Professional pilot Ron Rapp has written a fascinating article on a 2014 Gulfstream plane that crashed on takeoff. The accident was 100% human error and entirely...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink Pasta
Squid ink pasta is not hard to make, and is a really good side for a wide variety of fish recipes. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
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Podcast Interview with Me
The Technoskeptic has posted a good interview with me on its website. Normally it charges for its content, but this interview is available for free....
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"How Stories Deceive"
Fascinating New Yorker article about Samantha Azzopardi, serial con artist and deceiver. The article is really about how our brains allow stories to deceive us:...
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Replacing Judgment with Algorithms
China is considering a new "social credit" system, designed to rate everyone's trustworthiness. Many fear that it will become a tool of social control -- but in...
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Straight Talk about Terrorism
Nice essay that lists ten "truths" about terrorism: We can't keep the bad guys out. Besides, the threat is already inside. More surveillance won't get rid of terrorism...
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How the US Is Playing Both Ends on Data Privacy
There's an excellent article in Foreign Affairs on how the European insistence on data privacy -- most recently illustrated by their invalidation of the "safe harbor"...
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1981 CIA Report on Deception
Recently declassified: Deception Maxims: Fact and Folklore, Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency, June 1981. Research on deception and...
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NSA Spies on Israeli Prime Minister
The Wall Street Journal has a story that the NSA spied on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli government officials, and incidentally collected...
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