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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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What is the DoD's Position on Backdoors in Security Systems?
In May, Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave an address at the Joint Service Academies Cyber Security Summit at West...
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Hayden Mocks NSA Reforms
Former NSA Director Michael recently mocked the NSA reforms in the recently passed USA Freedom Act: If somebody would come up to me and say, "Look, Hayden, here's...
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Why We Encrypt
Encryption protects our data. It protects our data when it's sitting on our computers and in data centers, and it protects it when it's being transmitted around...
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History of the First Crypto War
As we're all gearing up to fight the Second Crypto War over governments' demands to be able to back-door any cryptographic system, it pays for us to remember the...
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The Secrecy of the Snowden Documents
Last weekend, the Sunday Times published a front-page story (full text here), citing anonymous British sources claiming that both China and Russia have copies of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Salad Servers
Nice. 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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Counterfeit Social Media Accounts
Interesting article on the inner workings of a Facebook account farm, with commentary on fake social media accounts in general....
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Hacking Drug Pumps
When you connect hospital drug pumps to the Internet, they're hackable -- only surprising people who aren't paying attention. Rios says when he first told Hospira...
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Research on The Trade-off Between Free Services and Personal Data
New report: "The Tradeoff Fallacy: How marketers are misrepresenting American consumers and opening them up to exploitation." New Annenberg survey results indicate...
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Peter Swire on the USA FREEDOM Act
Peter Swire, law professor and one of the members of the President's review group on the NSA, writes about intelligence reform and the USA FREEDOM Act....
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Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
Encrypting your Windows hard drives is trivially easy; choosing which program to use is annoyingly difficult. I still use Windows -- yes, I know, don't even start...
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Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Eighth Movie-Plot Threat Contest: I want a movie-plot threat that shows the evils of encryption. (For those who don't know, a movie-plot...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Dancing Zombie Squid
How dead squid is made to dance when soy sauce is poured on it. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
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Uh Oh -- Robots Are Getting Good with Samurai Swords
It's Iaido, not sword fighting, but still. Of course, the two didn't battle each other, but competed in Iaido tests like cutting mats and flowers in various cross...
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The History of Internet Insecurity
The Washington Post has a good two part story on the history of insecurity of the Internet....
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Duqu 2.0
Kaspersky Labs has discovered and publicized details of a new nation-state surveillance malware system, called Duqu 2.0. It's being attributed to Israel. There's...
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Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2015)
Earlier this week, I was at the eighth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. This is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the...
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Reassessing Airport Security
News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security "red team" tests was justifiably shocking...
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Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 3)
Cloud computing is the future of computing. Specialization and outsourcing make society more efficient and scalable, and computing isn't any different. But why...
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