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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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Defending against Actual IT Threats
Roger Grimes has written an interesting paper: "Implementing a Data-Driven Computer Security Defense." His thesis is that most organizations don't match their defenses...
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NSA Lectures on Communications Security from 1973
Newly declassified: "A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II)," the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA), 1973. (The document...
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NSA Collected Americans' E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans' E-mails
In 2011, the Bush administration authorized -- almost certainly illegally -- the NSA to conduct bulk electronic surveillance on Americans: phone calls, e-mails,...
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Policy Repercussions of the Paris Terrorist Attacks
In 2013, in the early days of the Snowden leaks, Harvard Law School professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith reflected on the increase in...
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Voter Surveillance
There hasn't been that much written about surveillance and big data being used to manipulate voters. In Data and Goliath, I wrote: Unique harms can arise from the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Spawning in South Australian Waters
Divers are counting them: Squid gather and mate with as many partners as possible, then die, in an annual ritual off Rapid Head on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south...
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Reputation in the Information Age
Reputation is a social mechanism by which we come to trust one another, in all aspects of our society. I see it as a security mechanism. The promise and threat...
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RFID-Shielded, Ultra-Strong Duffel Bags
They're for carrying cash through dangerous territory: SDR Traveller caters to people who, for one reason or another, need to haul huge amounts of cash money through...
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Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption
That is, no encryption at all. The Intercept has the story: "Yet news emerging from Paris -- as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January -- suggests...
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Ads Surreptitiously Using Sound to Communicate Across Devices
This is creepy and disturbing: Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track...
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On CISA
I have avoided writing about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), largely because the details kept changing. (For those not following closely, similar...
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Refuse to Be Terrorized
Paul Krugman has written a really good update of my 2006 esssay. Krugman: So what can we say about how to respond to terrorism? Before the atrocities in Paris,...
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Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden
Well, that didn't take long: As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that have claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame for the carnage is being directed toward American...
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Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI?
There's pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Championship
It's an annual event in Hvar, Croatia....
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Amazon Chooses Data and Goliath as a Best Book of 2015
Amazon chose Data and Goliath as one of its Best Books of 2015, in both the nonfiction and business categories....
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Personal Data Sharing by Mobile Apps
Interesting research: "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps," by Jinyan Zang, Krysta Dummit...
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Testing the Usability of PGP Encryption Tools
"Why Johnny Still, Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client," by Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Daniel Zappala, and Kent Seamons. Abstract...
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